UNIX-likes

Warning: this section not covers X-Window specific things, look at X-Window section instead.

Hint 1: if you want to browse Windows-created (CP1251) pages on your Unix (KOI8-R) operating system, just use latest Lynx version or on-line browsing decoders.
Hint 2: if you want to decode incoming E-mail messages marked with windows-1251 charset to KOI8-R, use this procmail script.

Console Fonts:

• Downloadable VT200/VT300 KOI8 fonts
• FreeBSD already comes with KOI8-R console fonts and charmaps included in the distribution. See FreeBSD tuning section for details.
• For Linux see Linux tuning section.

Keyboard & Screen Drivers:

• FreeBSD already has KOI8-R screen/keyboard setup included in the distribution. See FreeBSD tuning section for details.
• KOI8-R screen/keyboard setup for Interactive Unix
• KOI8-R screen/keyboard setup for SCO Unix
• KOI8-R screen/keyboard setup for Xenix
• For Linux see Linux tuning section.

Charset Converters:

• trans Character Encoding Converter Generator Package (sources), converts between most Russian encodings via UNICODE.
• d1489 - point-to-point CP866 <-> KOI8-R and best match CP1251 <-> KOI8-R character sets converter (with CR/LF translation)

Proxy:

• CyrProxy , Cyrillic transcoder for network protocols.
  It allows transcode text-based tcp protocols from/to following Cyrillic text coding standards: CP866 (DOS), Macintosh, ISO, KOI8 (UNIX), CP1251 (Windows).

Locales:

• Полезный ресурс о локализации, кодировках, символах т.п. - Локализация, как она есть .
• FreeBSD already has KOI8-R locale included in the distribution. See FreeBSD tuning section for details.
• KOI8-R locale sources for Linux . See Linux tuning section for details.

Applicable Software:

• Browsers:
  • Lynx (this alphanumeric browser has excellent KOI8-R support)
    See also Lynx Tuning.
• Newsreaders:
  • Tin (an alphanumeric newsreader)
    See also Tin Tuning.
• E-Mail:
  • ELM-2.4ME+ (enhanced Elm Mail Agent version, MIME, PGP, remailers added)
    See also Elm Tuning.
  • Pine (Mail/News Agent, many features, remote mailboxes, etc.)
    See also Pine Tuning.
  • The Mutt E-mail Client (Mail Agent which claims itself as Elm and Pine superseder)
    See also Mutt Tuning.
  • Sendmail (popular MTA)
    See also Sendmail Tuning.
  • Fetchmail (fetch mail from a *POP, IMAP, or ETRN-capable ESMTP server)
    See also Fetchmail Tuning.
  • Enhanced version of Berkeley Mail Agent , with Russian diagnostics.
• Misc:
  • Most of FreeBSD system utilities already understand KOI8-R. See FreeBSD tuning section for details.
  • ircII (popular chat client)
    See also ircII Tuning.
  • Страничка Александра Лебедева Словарь русского языка для ispell (Rus-ispell), есть поддержка буквы 'ё'.
    See another (smaller) Russian Ispell dictionary (Rispell).
    See also International Ispell page, my Rispell patch to fix KOI8-R sort order and add Yo/yo letters and semi-official ispell patch to handle HTML files.
  • Russian TeX Group page, some TeX soft available
  • Lib.Ru: Страничка кириллизации

Software Tuning:

Emacs tuning:

Emacs 19.33 KOI8-R configuration file, changes for new Emacs versions by Victor Kolossov <kolosov@vx.itep.ru>

Lynx tuning:

Go to 'o'ptions screen and check the following settings:

display (C)haracter set      : KOI8-R character set
preferred document c(H)arset : koi8-r;q=1.0,windows-1251;q=0.5

If you can't see a Russian (KOI8-R) WWW page properly with Lynx, this means that the page is broken. As a workaround, in latest Lynx versions in the same options screen press '^A' and choose koi8-r if you think the page looks a like (big letters mostly) or windows-1251 as most common case too (small letters mostly). For older Lynx versions press '@' (turn raw mode on).

Sendmail 8 tuning:

to prevent auto-encoding to BASE64 be sure that following line present in your configuration.mc file:

define(`confEIGHT_BIT_HANDLING', `pass8')dnl

Fetchmail tuning:

this program is 8bit clean by default excepting rare cases when buggy MUAs specify Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit but actually have 8bit characters in the mail body. To not strip 8bit for such cases too add pass8bits option to your ~/.fetchmailrc.

Mutt tuning:

Add

set allow_8bit
set charset="koi8-r"

directives to your ~/.muttrc or to system-wide Muttrc. For new mutt versions, add

set send_charset="us-ascii:koi8-r"

too. If you have sendmail version equal or greater than 8, add

set use_8bitmime

Pine tuning:

in (S)ETUP, (C)ONFIGURE mode set enable-8bit-esmtp-negotiations, enable-8bit-nntp-posting and pass-control-character-as-is. Then select character-set, set it to KOI8-R and save/exit setup.

NOTE: You need to apply this patch #1 to fix following problems:

• Pine converts all messages bigger than 3K and with 8bit characters amount bigger than 30% to QP or BASE64.
• Pine always converts mail piped to external delivery agent (via sendmail-path= setting) to QP or BASE64.

Pine doesn't show the Capital Hard Sign 'Ъ' in some situations, use this patch #2 to fix it.

Elm tuning:

in your ~/.elm/elmrc file, set

charset = KOI8-R
displaycharset = KOI8-R

Tin tuning:

set environment variable MM_CHARSET to KOI8-R and comment out mm_charset variable from ~/.tin/tinrc or just set mm_charset variable from ~/.tin/tinrc to KOI8-R (it overrides MM_CHARSET environment variable if present).

For new Tin versions mm_charset variable renamed to mm_network_charset and you also need to add

scope=relcom*
undeclared_charset=KOI8-R

scope=fido*
undeclared_charset=KOI8-R

lines to your ~/.tin/attributes

IrcII tuning:

add following lines to your ~/.ircrc:

/set translation russian
/set eight_bit_characters on

MySQL tuning:

this mysql patch (from Alex Povolotsky) adds a feature: auto recoding from/to CP1251, see README inside for more info.

Printing in KOI8-R:

страничка koi8 postscript fonts описывает настройку Ghostscript в KOI8-R для эмуляции postscript-принтера, установку KOI8-R Type1 шрифтов для XFree86, печать по-русски из Netscape, русификацию StarOffice и ApplixWare.