


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 wrap-
       per.  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  terri-
       tory 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)






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