4. Miscellaneous utilities setup

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4.1  bash


Three variables should be set on order to make bash understand the
8-bit characters. The best place is ~/.inputrc
file. The following should be set:

set meta-flag on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on





4.2  csh/tcsh


The following should be set in .cshrc:

setenv LC_CTYPE ISO-8859-5
stty pass8





4.3  remote access


Use 'rlogin -8'



4.4  emacs


The minimal cyrillic support in emacs is done by adding the following
calls to one's .emacs (provided that the Cyrillic character set
support is installed for console or X respectively):

(standard-display-european t)

(set-input-mode (car (current-input-mode))
   (nth 1 (current-input-mode))
   0)


This allows the user to view and input documents in Russian.
However, such mode is not of a big convenience because emacs doesn't
recognize the usual keyboard commands while set in Cyrillic input
mode. There is a number of packages which use the different
approach. They don't rely on the input mode stuff established by the
environment (either X or console. Instead, they allow the user to
switch the input mode by the special emacs command and emacs
itself is responsible for re-mapping the character set. There are, at
least, two packages of that type. One is cyr.el. It can be found
in most Emacs-Lisp archives. The other one is the package remap
which tries to 
make such support more generic. This package is written by Per
Abrahamsen (abraham@iesd.auc.dk) and is accessible at
ftp.iesd.auc.dk.



4.5  less


So far, less doesn't support the KOI-8 character set, but the
following environment variable will do the job:

LESSCHARSET=latin1





4.6  ispell


Check the
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/academic/russian-studies/Software for
the russian dictionary created by Neal Dalton (nrd@cray.com) for
the ispell package.



4.7  Netscape


Set the following resource:

*documentFonts*registry:        koi8






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