---
name: "koi8rxterm"
section: "1x"
platform: "linux"
package: "xterm"
version: "222-1etch4"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/koi8rxterm/1x"
---

# koi8rxterm(1x)

X terminal emulator for KOI8-R environments

## NAME

koi8rxterm - X terminal emulator for KOI8-R environments

## SYNOPSIS

**koi8rxterm** \[ *xterm-options* \]

## DESCRIPTION

**koi8rxterm** is a wrapper around the [**xterm**(1)](/xterm/1.md) program that invokes the latter program with the ‘KOI8RXTerm’ X resource class set. All arguments to **koi8rxterm** 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)](/locale/1.md) utility is used to determine whether the system supports the selected locale. If it does not, **koi8rxterm** will exit with an error and report the output of **locale**.

**Note: koi8rxterm** 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 **koi8rxterm** uses by default. To change the fonts **koi8rxterm** uses, edit the */etc/X11/app-defaults/KOI8RXTerm* file.

A similar wrapper, [**uxterm**(1x)](/uxterm/1x.md), is available for Unicode UTF-8 environments.

## ENVIRONMENT

- **LC\_ALL, LC\_CTYPE, LANG**

  The values of these variables are checked, in order, to determine the character set used by the current locale.

## AUTHOR

**koi8rxterm** 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.

## SEE ALSO

[**locale**(1)](/locale/1.md), [**locale**(7)](/locale/7.md), [**uxterm**(1x)](/uxterm/1x.md), [**xterm**(1)](/xterm/1.md)