Hi!
Im new in linux world and my question may be very easy but for me it is a real problem..
So, Im wonting set new locale in xubuntu...
now I have ru_Ru.UTF-8, but I wont change encoding in KOI8-R...
what I do for thisafter this in the terminal became locale ru_RU.KOI8-R and all programs that runs from this terminal have so locale, bat in other terminals there are old locale

what I must do? Help me please..

Probably you must change the local for all terminals. But why do you want to use KOI8 encoding at all? It is a completely outdated encoding by now and you will probably end up making yourself more problems than you are going to solve. UTF8 supports cyrillic.

Yes, but how? Help me please...
I need use some programms that dont working whith UTF8 curilic...Its only you opinionYes, I know, now I use UTF8 for my cyrillic text..

Start your locale environment from within your .profile or .bashrc.

I put all my stuff into a separete file called .i18n and this file is loaded from my .bashrc with ". ~/.i18n".

In .i18n I've got: (adjust for russian, please)

export LC_CTYPE="de_DE.utf-8"
export LC_COLLATE="de_DE.utf-8"
export LANG=en_US.utf-8
export LC_PAPER="de_DE.utf-8"


That means: I want my system still talk to me in english (LANG) when it comes to error messages and stuff, but please do sorting correctly for german alphabet (COLLATE) and just to be save no character and font mess-ups (CTYPE) with german umlauts.

And please, all this encoded in UTF-8.

If you just need ONE application or terminal specifically be started within your russian environment call it from command line like this:

LANG=ru_RU.utf-8 abiword &

(Just as an example...)

Wether it's ".utf-8" or ".UTF-8" or something else depends on your settings; check with

locale -a | grep ru_RU

what you actually got. I forgot if this is case sensitive or not.

If you only need the command line to use KOI8 encoding the KDE and GNOME ones can easily be switched. In Konsole for example: "Preferences -> Encoding -> Select your encoding" then if you want that Konsole always starts with KOI8 encoding as default "Preferences -> Save" .

I'm working on a open source jukebox, believe me, those old character encodings (includes ISO-8859 variants) make lots of mess and we get lots of user feedback because of various issues with those (ID3 tags for example).

Thanks for all, you very helped me...

ps
hansalfredche, about koi8.. Im only schoolboy(for this year)) Its my home computer, and I didn't do any real big projects(now)), but my hobby(and I hope, future profession) is programming... now I realy liking lazarus(it's grate), but it's dont work in russian mode whith out koi8 .. also there different servers that use koi8 in ssh.. so I decided change local... You say it's old but all russian linux resource use it(like linux.org.ru, opennet.ru and other). And offcouse working whitch koi8 is faster...
ps2
some time later, when utf8'll become real encoding for russians resource, I probably change my mind

I will not start a war about which encoding is better, I'm just going to say: Globalization has also reached Russia

off course, some time later, we all will be use some unicode(probably, it will be utf8)..