koi8rxterm(1)                                                    koi8rxterm(1)



NAME
       koi8rxterm - X terminal emulator for KOI8-R environments

SYNOPSIS
       koi8rxterm [xterm-options]

DESCRIPTION
       koi8rxterm is a wrapper around the xterm(1) program that invokes the
       latter program with the `KOI8RXTerm' X resource class set.  All
       arguments to koi8rxterm are passed to xterm without processing; the
       -class and -k8 options should not be specified because they are used by
       the wrapper.  See the xterm manual page for more information on
       xterm-options.

       The environment's locale settings (see ``ENVIRONMENT'' below) are used
       to discern the locale's character set.  If no current locale can be
       determined, the locale `ru_RU.KOI8-R' (the Russian language as used in
       the territory of Russia, with the KOI8-R character set) is assumed.
       The locale(1) utility is used to determine whether the system supports
       the selected locale.  If it does not, koi8rxterm will exit with an
       error and report the output of locale.

       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 fonts using that encoding are not available.  In the Debian
       system, the `xfonts-cyrillic' package provides the fonts that
       koi8rxterm uses by default.  To change the fonts koi8rxterm uses, edit
       the /etc/X11/app-defaults/KOI8RXTerm file.

       A similar wrapper, uxterm(1), is available for Unicode UTF-8
       environments.

ENVIRONMENT
       LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG
              The values of these variables are checked, in order, to
              determine the character set used by the current locale.

AUTHOR
       koi8rxterm was written by Branden Robinson and is very heavily based on
       uxterm, by Thomas Dickey.  The assistance of Jurij Smakov was
       invaluable in sanity-checking its operation.

SEE ALSO
       locale(1), locale(7), uxterm(1), xterm(1)



Debian Project                                               December 19, 2004
