--- man-1.6-r1.ebuild	2005-08-04 01:27:27.566055696 +0400
+++ man-1.6-r2.ebuild	2005-08-01 03:27:26.187555576 +0400
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 LICENSE="GPL-2"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86"
-IUSE="nls"
+IUSE="nls unicode"
 
 DEPEND=""
 RDEPEND="sys-process/cronbase
@@ -46,6 +46,15 @@
 		-e "/^LDFLAGS = -s/s:=.*:=${LDFLAGS}:" \
 		src/Makefile.in \
 		|| die "failed to edit default LDLFAGS"
+	
+	if use unicode
+	then
+		einfo "Converting russian lang file to utf8"
+		iconv -f koi8-r -t utf8 ${S}/msgs/mess.ru > tempfile
+		mv tempfile ${S}/msgs/mess.ru
+		echo "$ codeset=utf8" > ${S}/msgs/mess.ru.codeset
+	fi
+										
 }
 
 src_compile() {