X Strike Force XFree86 SVN commit: r2093 - trunk/debian/local
Author: branden
Date: 2004-12-19 19:25:18 -0500 (Sun, 19 Dec 2004)
New Revision: 2093
Modified:
trunk/debian/local/koi8rxterm.1x
Log:
Expand koi8rxterm manual page.
Stop backslash-escaping hyphens in the date.
Modified: trunk/debian/local/koi8rxterm.1x
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/local/koi8rxterm.1x 2004-12-20 00:03:53 UTC (rev 2092)
+++ trunk/debian/local/koi8rxterm.1x 2004-12-20 00:25:18 UTC (rev 2093)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
.\" $Id$
.\"
-.\" This manpage is copyright (C) 2001 Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
+.\" Copyright 2004 Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
.\" Author: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
.\"
.\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
.\" OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
.\" ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
.\" DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
-.TH koi8rxterm 1x "2004\-12\-19" "Debian Project"
+.TH koi8rxterm 1x "2004-12-19" "Debian Project"
.SH NAME
koi8rxterm \- X terminal emulator for KOI8-R environments
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -47,11 +47,23 @@
.BR xterm
manual page for more information on
.IR xterm-options .
+The environment's locale settings (see \(lqENVIRONMENT\(rq below) are
+used to discern the locale's character set.
+If no current locale can be determined, the locale \(oqru_RU\(cq (the
+Russian language as used in the territory of Russia) is assumed.
+The
+.BR locale (1)
+utility is used to determine whether the system supports the selected
+locale.
+If it does not,
+.B uxterm
+will exit with an error and report the output of
+.BR locale .
.PP
.B Note: koi8rxterm
may produce unexpected results if the current locale is set to one in which
-the KOI8-R character encoding is not supported, or if the Cyrillic fonts
-are not available.
+the KOI8-R character encoding is not supported, or if fonts using that
+encoding are not available.
In the Debian system, the \(oqxfonts\-cyrillic\(cq package provides the
fonts that
.B koi8rxterm
@@ -61,6 +73,15 @@
uses, edit the
.I /etc/X11/app\-defaults/KOI8RXTerm
file.
+.PP
+A similar wrapper,
+.BR uxterm (1x),
+is available for Unicode UTF-8 environments.
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+.TP
+.B LC_ALL\fR, \fBLC_CTYPE\fR, \fBLANG
+The values of these variables are checked, in order, to determine the
+character set used by the current locale.
.SH AUTHOR
.B koi8rxterm
was written by Branden Robinson and is very heavily based on
@@ -69,5 +90,7 @@
The assistance of Jurij Smakov was invaluable in sanity-checking its
operation.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR locale (1),
+.BR locale (7),
.BR uxterm (1x),
.BR xterm (1)
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