2010/6/8 Sviatoslav Chagaev <0x1392@gmail.com>:
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> Hi misc@
>
> I want to be able to type non latin characters in xterm (Russian and
> Latvian).
> I sat down, read xterm manpage and tried playing with all the options
> which even remotely looked like they could influence something.
> But the only thing I managed to get working is xterm displaying UTF-8
> correctly.
>
> Here's my ~/.Xdefaults:
>
> XTerm*loginShell: true
> XTerm*useClipping: false
> XTerm*geometry: 119x38
> XTerm*termName: xterm-xfree86
> XTerm*scrollBar: false
> XTerm*rightScrollBar: true
> XTerm*colorMode: true
> XTerm*colorBDMode: false
> XTerm*boldColors: true
> XTerm*boldMode: true
> XTerm*cutNewline: false
> XTerm*cutToBeginningOfLine: false
> XTerm*trimSelection: true
> XTerm*internalBorder: 2
> XTerm*Font: -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
> XTerm*Foreground: rgb:cc/cc/cc
> XTerm*Background: black
> XTerm*locale: false
> XTerm*utf8: 2
> XTerm*deleteIsDEL: true
> XTerm*eightBitInput: true
>
>
> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
> export LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
> export LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
> export LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> export LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
> export LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> export LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
> export LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
> export LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
> export LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
> export LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
> export LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
> export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
> xterm
>
> Didn't help too.
>
> The annoying thing is that when I start vim in xterm, I *can* type in
> any language with no problem.
>
> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL
>
> Is it possible to enable non latin input in xterm somehow?
>
> ---
>
> And while I'm here, do you know of any video stream of some channel or
> something which mplayer (or something from ports) could play and where
> they'll show FIFA World Cup? My TV receives badly, with a lot of noise,
> so I thought that maybe even an internet stream could be better, plus I
> want commentaries in English.

See here: http://www.openbsd.ru/docs/howto-cyrillic.html#xterm

Basically, you need:
1. echo "set +o emacs-usemeta" >>~/.profile
2. echo "XTerm*allowC1Printable: true" >>~/.Xdefaults

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  Vadim Zhukov