Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:25:31 -0700 (PDT) scripsit Meph Istopheles: > Any idea? Start by giving us the output of: $ locale and remind us which distro you're using. My own consoles recognise characters with accents no trouble because I have set things up this way: $ locale LANG=en_IE@euro LC_CTYPE="en_IE@euro" LC_NUMERIC="en_IE@euro" LC_TIME="en_IE@euro" LC_COLLATE="en_IE@euro" LC_MONETARY="en_IE@euro" LC_MESSAGES="en_IE@euro" LC_PAPER="en_IE@euro" LC_NAME="en_IE@euro" LC_ADDRESS="en_IE@euro" LC_TELEPHONE="en_IE@euro" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_IE@euro" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_IE@euro" LC_ALL= -- G. Stewart -- gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx -- gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux user #284683 (Slackware 9.0) --------------------------------------------------------------- In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. To unsubcribe send e-mail with the word unsubscribe in the body to: Linux-Anyway-Request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?body=unsubscribe