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Hi, I am a newbie just figuring out my way into Arch.
I want to have multiple language support(English and Russian).
I managed to add Russian in the system settings. I can now change my keyboard layout with a shortcut.
However in the Konsole terminal, the Russian characters are being shown as sets of "???????"
How can I add the support for Russian char in the terminal?
help!
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Are you sure that Konsole profile is set to use a font that supports Russian characters?
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1. Uncomment "ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8" string in /etc/locale.gen
2. Run locale-gen command
3. Create /etc/vconsole.conf file:
LOCALE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Moscow"
KEYMAP="ru"
FONT="cyr-sun16"
CONSOLEMAP=""
USECOLOR="yes"
4. Create /etc/locale.conf file:
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=ru_RU.UTF-8
5. Add "consolefont" and "keymap" in HOOKS section in /etc/mkinicpio.conf
For example:
HOOKS=(base consolefont keymap udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck)
6. Run mkinitcpio -p linux
7. Reboot
Also Arch Linux have terrible default russian font. I recommend install ttf-liberation package and change all system fonts to this.
Last edited by Dirmork (2018-02-13 07:02:17)
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None of that, except 4, has any bearing on OP's issue. They say they have sorted their console setup.
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1-7 are necessary for working of the Russian language in TTY too.
To add Cyrillic languages it is better to do a complete configuration like this at once.
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Yes: read the first post. OP has that working already...
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Most likely, OP simply added the Russian input method in the KDE settings. In this case, the Russian language will work everywhere except Konsole and TTY.
I suggest waiting for OP
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Konsole is the KDE terminal emulator and adheres to the locale settings and that's irrelevant because you can have cyrillic letters w/o any russian locale being set.
Xabre is probably spot on.
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Hi all, Thanks for your reply. The problem has not been resolved.
I have tried the following
-(post #2) Set the Konsole encoding to UTF-8(already by default)
-(post #3) I have followed all the 7 steps including the installation of the the fonts.
Still get the same result below when I type Russian characters in the console.
➜ Desktop <ffffffff><ffffffff><ffffffff><ffffffff>
zsh: no matches found: ????
I don't want to make Russian language my system default. I only want to add this support so I can use gtypist or edit russian documents in vim.
What am I missing?
Last edited by paradokkusu (2018-02-13 13:28:38)
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Forget about post #3 and post #2 explicitly states
use a font that supports Russian characters
To ensure you didn't screw your locale (and really are using UTF8):
locale
locale -a
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Here are my outputs for both:
~ locale
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: ?????????? ?????????? LC_ALL ? ?????? ?? ?????????.: ??? ?????? ????? ??? ????????
LANG=en_SG.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=en_SG.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC="en_SG.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_SG.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_SG.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_SG.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_PAPER="en_SG.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_SG.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_SG.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_SG.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_SG.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_SG.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
~ locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: ?????????? ?????????? LC_COLLATE ? ?????? ?? ?????????.: ??? ?????? ????? ??? ????????
C
POSIX
en_US.utf8
ru_RU.utf8
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Well your locale obviously *is* broken.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lo … ng_locales
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Thanks Seth. The changes below to my locale.conf fixed it partly. I can now type Russian char Konsole
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="ru_RU.UTF-8"
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However, I still have issues with gtypist and vim. I will try to look for their settings.
Thanks all!
Last edited by paradokkusu (2018-02-13 14:32:12)
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Ensure those locales make it into your shell environment and from there to GUI clients:
tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/`pidof gtypist`/environ
(notice that I've no idea whether that's actually the binary name of the program)
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This is the response
~ tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/`pidof gtypist`/environ
zsh: Нет такого файла или каталога: /proc//environ(translation: No such file or directory)
"gtypist" is how I start the program
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I don't speak russian but "/proc//environ" suggests gtypist wasn't running at that time (thus pidof it was empty)
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Right! Sorry, It shows an output when I run gtypist.
However, to access Russian lesson, i need to run gtypist with and argument (> gtypist ru.typ) and the error is as below.
~ gtypist ru.typ
gtypist: line 34: iconv() failed on 'B: Добро пожаловать!': Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
You should probably use a UTF-8 locale for the selected lesson!
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This is what I would get for
LC_ALL=C gtypist ru.typ
ie. the locale in this context (I assume you run it from an interactive shell?) is still wrong.
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It's a shell program, no GUI client.
When i run just "gtypist" in one terminal window and run the command from #14 in another to look for the locales the output has the following
...........................
LANG=en_SG.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:ru
LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=ru_RU.UTF-8
............................
However "gtypist ru.typ" or as in #18 results the same error output as in #15.
I am trying to wrap my head around this.
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Maybe it's something to do with the gtypist installation..
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"ru" isn't "ru_RU.UTF-8" and afaiu you didn't generate "en_SG.UTF-8"?
The latter is would certainly cause this failure.
Fix your locale: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Locale
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Thanks Seth! I am kinda figuring it out now.
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