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I managed to get russian language working in my Gnome apps, but neither in the console (Alt-Shift-F2 and such) nor in the Gnome Terminal

valyagentoo va1en0k # locale
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=ru_RU.UTF-8


valyagentoo va1en0k # cat /etc/conf.d/consolefont 
# /etc/conf.d/consolefont

# CONSOLEFONT specifies the default font that you'd like Linux to use on the
# console.  You can find a good selection of fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts;
# you shouldn't specify the trailing ".psf.gz", just the font name below.
# To use the default console font, comment out the CONSOLEFONT setting below.
# This setting is used by the /etc/init.d/consolefont script (NOTE: if you do

CONSOLEFONT="UniCyr-sans"

# CONSOLETRANSLATION is the charset map file to use.  Leave commented to use
# the default one.  Have a look in /usr/share/consoletrans for a selection of
# map files you can use.

# CONSOLETRANSLATION="8859-1_to_uni"
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Here are some of my suggestions:

  • Have you enabled the unicode useflag? Without it zsh won't be compiled with Unicode support. If you're using bash, it should have Unicode support through libreadline. Also, ksh and tcsh don't support Unicode at all.
  • It could also be your locale or font selections, but they look fine from what I can gather. Just make sure to list your locale in /etc/locale.gen and generate it with locale-gen on the command line.

Also, take a look at the Using UTF-8 with Gentoo guide from the Gentoo documentation.

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    for bash, USE="net nls -afs -bashlogger -examples -mem-scramble -plugins -vanilla". I generated the locale, dont work yet. And I think I did all steps from the guide, I'll try to reboot now
    – valya
    Commented Mar 2, 2011 at 17:12
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    As far as I know bash uses sys-apps/readline, which has Unicode support by default (no USE flag to toggle it on/off, it's always on). So I guess that should work.
    – Cedric
    Commented Mar 2, 2011 at 19:45
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Have you tried change consolefont to another value? I had the same problem and

    consolefont="cyr-sun16"

works fine for me.

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$ emerge terminus-font corefonts cronyx-fonts freefonts
$ nano /etc/locale.gen
<<enter this>>
ru_RU.UTF-8 UTF-8
$ nano  /etc/conf.d/consolefont
<<enter this>>
CONSOLEFONT="cyr-sun16"
$ nano /etc/env.d/02locale
<<enter this>>
LC_ALL=""
LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"LC_ALL=""
LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8"
$ locale-gen 
$ /etc/init.d/consolefont restart
$ env-update 
$ source /etc/profile
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