GCC-4.3.1, Linux-2.6.26.2

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

DJ Lucas wrote:

> force UTF-8 locales?

_please_ don't! I still don't use UTF-8 locales at work, because I do a lot of 
TeX work, and with certain styles, bibtex completely mangles Russian 
references in UTF-8 encoded files (takes the first _byte_ instead of the 
first _letter_ as the initial, thus producing invalid UTF-8, e.g., transforms 
Александр Евгеньевич Патраков to ?.~?.~Патраков [replaced invalid with 
question marks] instead of А.~Е.~Патраков). Since it is inconvenient to have 
the majority of documents in the encoding different from that of the locale, 
I stay with ru_RU.KOI8-R there.

I think I am not alone with this bibtex problem.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov