So.. Cyrillic names of files are shown as.. like this " А�ƒк�†�‹он + Хвос�‚ ".
Any ideas how to solve this thing? maybe the mounting options in fstab?

did you try to just set your locale ?

Use the mount option "utf8".

What exactly would be the syntax with the utf8 option? I myself have a bunch of Japanese mp3s, but when I see the file names, mostly I don't get strange characters, only ?????? , and I can't even access them, and also I am viewing the files from a shared folder on an XP machine, so I don't quite know how to properly configure samba...

As for getting cyrillics working in X, there is a good thread here.

UTF8 is a way to encode characters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF8

See this localisation howto:
http://web.opennet.ru/base/rus/linux...ation.txt.html

Is there anyway to display Unicode in a terminal though?

I've been able to get X working with Japanese support for years, but never could i get a plain framebuffer terminal to do it.

I'm guessing there has to be an application for this somewhere.

You will need to do a few things in order to fully Russify your system. You can add new languages/locales in your control panel (I always add Russian as a second available language/locale during installations - it's usually in the "Advanced" settings). I believe that this will automatically allow many of your programs to display Russian without a problem (terminals and so on).

You'll want to modify your fstab so your drives come up as UTF8. If you've got an NTFS drive, add 'nls=utf8'. If you've got a FAT line in there, you'll need to add 'utf8' (in both cases, without the single quotation marks).

By the way, the one link that somebody sent you talked a lot about using KOI8R. I've always preferred UTF8, although I guess the choice is up to you. I found that I had to manually edit some mp3 tags and stuff like that, but nothing horrible. MP3 discs from Russia are usually KOI8R, I believe.

As I mentioned, I always Russify my system during installation, so it might explain why I haven't run into any big problems with software. That is, my konsole terminal displays Cyrillic characters with no problem. I had a slight problem with XMMS, but choosing a different font fixed that.

I know I'm sort of all over the place here, but if you have any more questions, we'll help you out.

Baltika

Well my Gnome-terminal can do it, but nothing outside of X can. I guess i need a pcf font(i think this is what framebuffer terminals use) that supports japanese.
If in X i can display japanese perfectly
http://img316.imageshack.us/img316/6092/nihongo1ue.png

but if i control+f2 into a terminal, well i can't take a screenshot, but trust me, it's just garbled text. This has been bugging me for years, but i just gave up and assumed it was impossible to display CJK outside of X.

ok people. show me please where must I put this "UTF8" in my fstab:

/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda5 /home_2 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb1 /home_3 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

..really I don't know what it mean by saying "defaults"..though I've read the man.. explain me please.. because I can't live whithout Slackware at all and without russian names..

Privet

Use GNOME and add this to a script that will execute gnome-session

export LC_ALL=ru_RU

like this

#!/bin/bash
export LC_ALL=ru_RU
gnome-session

That should work.

Pardon, I have no GNOME installed on Slackware 10.2 and I will never install it..=)

It also would work in KDE, and although KDE does not need it some stuff (like mc) that is executed from within KDE will thank you if you specify in that way that you want everything to be ru_RU.

If you are going to mount any VFAT device, it would be useful to tell your kernel that you're going to speak Russian with it.

In that case, you can also recompile your kernel indicating Cyrillic as the default NLS. If you do that you don't need to add anything to your fstab.

It would help to use the Win$$$$$ fonts. I use them. (I own a copy of W$&& so i use the fonts i paid for; but i do think there are free Cyrillic fonts out there)

Good luck!

"recompile your kernel indicating Cyrillic as the default NLS" - how to ?