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Kamen TOMOV <kamen@evrocom.net> writes:

> I'm having problems opening UTF-8 coded files containing text in
> cyrillic in terminal mode. The text appears as '?'. Any other coding
> is displayed properly (CP1251, ISO-8859-5, KOI8-R). The problem exists
> only in terminal mode, e.g. if I start emacs in X mode, everything is
> OK. I'm using GNU Emacs 21.3.1. Any help would be appreciated.

Emacs 21.3 by default does not convert UTF-8 Cyrillic text to
ISO-8859-5 internally. On X, it uses Unicode fonts to display UTF-8
text, and Cyrillic fonts to display the other encodings. In terminal
mode, you only have one terminal encoding, so that is the reason why
you cannot see the UTF-8 text.

See the functions unify-8859-on-encoding-mode and
unify-8859-on-decoding-mode to turn on conversion between UTF-8 and
ISO-8859-5.