X terminal emulator for koi8-r environments
\*n [ xterm-options ]
\*n is a wrapper around the xterm(1) program that invokes the latter program with the \*(``KOI8RXTerm\*('' X resource class set. All arguments to \*n are passed to xterm without processing; the -class and -k8 options should not be specified because they are used by the wrapper. See the xterm manual page for more information on xterm-options.
The environment's locale settings (see \*(``ENVIRONMENT\*('' below) are used to discern the locale's character set. If no current locale can be determined, the locale \*(``ru_RU.KOI8-R\*('' (the Russian language as used in the territory of Russia, with the KOI8-R character set) is assumed. The locale(1) utility is used to determine whether the system supports the selected locale. If it does not, \*n will exit with an error and report the output of locale.
Note: \*n may produce unexpected results if the current locale is set to one in which the KOI8-R character encoding is not supported, or if fonts using that encoding are not available. In the Debian system, the \*(``xfonts-cyrillic\*('' package provides the fonts that \*n uses by default. To change the fonts \*n uses, edit the /etc/X11/app-defaults/KOI8RXTerm file.
A similar wrapper, uxterm(1), is available for Unicode UTF-8 environments.
LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG
The values of these variables are checked, in order, to determine the character set used by the current locale.
\*n was written by Branden Robinson and is very heavily based on uxterm, by Thomas Dickey. The assistance of Jurij Smakov was invaluable in sanity-checking its operation.