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From: Ilya Basin <basinilya AT gmail DOT com>
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AK> On 11 September 2010 18:48, Ilya Basin wrote:
>> AK> On Saturday, September 11, 2010, Ilya Basin wrote:
>>>> Hi. My default LANG is C.UTF-8. If I change it to ru.UTF-8, all
>>>> non-ascii characters in man pages are displayed as question marks.
>>
>> AK> ru.UTF-8 isn't a valid locale setting; you need a territory in there
>> AK> as well, e.g. ru_RU.UTF-8, otherwise you end up in the ASCII-only C
>> AK> locale.
>>
>> AK> Andy
>>
>> For some reason with the standard ru_RU.UTF-8 man pages are in English

AK> Hmm, something is quite wrong with that then.

AK> We don't seem to have many man pages in Russian (or any other language
AK> that isn't English) in the first place. Was it the vim pages you were
AK> looking at?
yes
AK> Does inserting preconv as you mentioned previously help with ru_RU.UTF-8 too?
No, as I told before, with LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8 man can't find man pages
in Russian and displays them in English.
AK> Andy

I think there're at least 2 problems:
 - man incorrectly parses the LANG variable
 - man doesn't use preconv


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