ALT Linux Bugzilla – #17919

elinks-0.11.3-alt1.1

In Lite 4.0.3, start a terminal, and run links in it. Press ESC, ESC.

Result: you see the menu bar above: 

    æÁÊÌ    ÷ÉÄ    óÓÙÌËÉ    Tools    îÁÓÔÒÏÊËÁ    óÐÒÁ×ËÁ         

(incorrectly encoded Russian).

Expected result: correctly encoded Russian.

Info: $ locale
LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="ru_RU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
$ 

Workaround: 
$ LC_ALL=C links

then you happily see the readable English interface.