Bug#607138: locales: broken cyrillic in xterm with ru_UA.utf8 locale

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:09:47AM +0200, basilio wrote:
> Subject: locales: broken cyrillic in xterm with ru_UA.utf8 locale
> Package: locales
> Version: 2.11.2-7
> Severity: normal
> 
> Cyrillic is completely broken in xterm and partially (no input) in wine when
> using locale ru_UA.utf8. Setting LANG="ru_UA.UTF-8" manually solves the
> problem. But setting LANG=ru_UA.UTF-8 in /etc/defaults/locale has no effect.
> System locale remains ru_UA.utf8 even after rebooting. Writing alias
> (ru_UA.utf8 ru_UA.UTF-8) in /usr/share/X11/locale/locale.alias doesn't help
> either. So it looks like ru_UA.utf8 locale is broken. And correct locale
> ru_UA.UTF-8 is impossible to choose during startup. Locale ru_UA.UTF-8
> generated. Need help. Thanks ahead.
> 

The question is why did you define your default locale as "ru_UA.utf8"
and not "ru_UA.UTF-8"? "ru_UA.utf8" is not a locale which exist by
default (unless you manually created it), so it's normal it causes you
problem.

By the way, are you sure you have no locale defines in /etc/environment?

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