Hey, > Start by giving us the output of: > $ locale $ locale LANG=en_GB LC_CTYPE="en_GB" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB" LC_TIME="en_GB" LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY="en_GB" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB" LC_PAPER="en_GB" LC_NAME="en_GB" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB" LC_ALL= > and remind us which distro you're using. Till Sunday, I'm still running RH 7.2 with many updates. This may all be moot, as I suspect gentoo handles things much more along the Linux standards, but, till Sunday.... > 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= Hmm. And you're using Sylpheed, which IIRC renders fonts fine, so I wouldn't be able to forward you something from one of the Polish e-mails to see what I'm getting. Anyway, how would I, assuming this "euro" font is installed, switch? That may be a way to fool RH into doing what I want. Meph -- Banectomy, n.: The removal of bruises on a banana. -Rich Hall, "Sniglets" To unsubcribe send e-mail with the word unsubscribe in the body to: Linux-Anyway-Request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?body=unsubscribe