[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 708] New: RFE: recognize koi8-r fonts when UTF-8 locale is used.

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           Summary: RFE: recognize koi8-r fonts when UTF-8 locale is used.
           Product: xorg
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
               URL: http://freedesktop.org/cgi-
                    bin/viewcvs.cgi/xc/nls/XLC_LOCALE/en_US.UTF-8?root=xorg
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: I18N
        AssignedTo: xorg-bugzilla-noise at freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: x-bugs at nogin.org


As I understand, the current NLS configuration forces X applications to use only
ISO10646-1 fonts for displaying Cyrillic letters under ru_RU.UTF-8.
Unfortunatelly, there are not that many ISO10646-1 fonts that include Cyrillics
and it would be nice if X new to pick up koi8-r fonts as well.

After all, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/XLC_LOCALE
(http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/xc/nls/XLC_LOCALE/en_US.UTF-8?root=xorg)
does say "We leave the legacy encodings in for the moment, because we don't have
that many ISO10646 fonts yet.", except unfortunatelly the KOI8-R encoding is not
among the legacy ones it knows about.

P.S. Related:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68725
http://bugs.xfree86.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1186   
   
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