Re: Cyrillic letters in X applications

[Peter Solodov <solodov@bigfoot.com>]

Konrad Mierendorff <mierendorff@gmx.net> writes:

> This resulted of course in an american keyboard layout and I do not
> know how to switch. (grp:shift => Alt+Shift?) Alt+Shift does not work
> BTW.

Forgot about that - you need to press both shifts to switch layout.

>  >km@legolas:~ > export LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R
>  >km@legolas:~ > gnumeric
>  >
>  >Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
>  >
>  >
>  >Gdk-WARNING **:     KOI8-R
>  >
>  >
>  >Gdk-WARNING **:     KOI8-R
>  >
>  >

This is normal :). Start gnome control center and select russian font
for your theme instead of default one (or the one your are using). I
assume you use KOI8-R fonts. 

> Does it tell you anything? I for my part am a bit helpless. And now it
> is late and I will try again tomorrow.

I had the same.

Good luck,
Peter.