Some apps, such as man, mplayer etc doesn't work with unicode from the box Fix of mc tips encoding decrease segfaults
Created attachment 65019 [details, diff] man rus utf patch
Created attachment 65020 [details, diff] Mplayer utf rus patch
Created attachment 65021 [details, diff] mc rus tips utf fix patch
please see bug #93664 - http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93664
a) Please use "New -> Gentoo Linux -> Component: Ebuilds" in future. Infrastructure is not the correct addressee. b) Don't create one bug for different unrelated packages. c) Ebuilds get messy, when we start to add a few lines for every single language request to support utf8. Take that upstream or provide an updated patch.
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