Problem 

Affects Russian locales. 

The pango X11 shaper in this release of the GNOME Desktop does not support CP1251 encoding. As a result, CP1251 or ANSI1251 encoded characters are displayed as zero-width or blank characters.  

Solution 

Use the following locales, which are supported by the pango X11 shaper, until CP1251 support is available:  

• ru_RU.KOI8-R

• ru_RU.ISO8859-5

• ru_RU.UTF-8

You can use iconv conversion tables to re-encode CP1251 and ANSI1251 files. To encode a CP1251 or ANSI1251 file into a UTF-8 encoded file, in a terminal run the following command:  

/usr/bin/iconv -f CP1251 -t UTF-8 CP1251 filename > UTF-8 filename. (man iconv)