Quite a while ago, I've had problems with using ru_RU.UTF-8 locale with less (the problem was with using cyrillic letters while searching), and I had an e-mail conversation with less's author, and he did send me a fixed and updated version (less-385), which he said he would later release. I used it happily ever since. Recently I've switched from slackware to gentoo, and found that gentoo provides less-382, which exhibits the same problem (if you view some file with less and press the '/' character while in ru_RU.UTF-8 locale, then switch your keymap(group in X) to russian and type something, weird characters would appear). I've got this less-385 tarball from back then, and less from this tarball work. It'd be great to have this in portage (or separate these changes in a utf-8 fixing patch). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 59613 [details] searching in ru_RU.UTF-8 locale works ok in this less version this is the original version which the less's author has sent me that fixes the bug i've described above
the 385 tarball is on the less homepage, it just doesnt have a link on the frontpage ive added 385 to portage, thanks for the info ! :)
