I've been looking & looking for how to set my locale properly. This is the output of local: # locale LANG=C LC_CTYPE="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_PAPER="C" LC_NAME="C" LC_ADDRESS="C" LC_TELEPHONE="C" LC_MEASUREMENT="C" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C" LC_ALL= Previous distros bave either en_US or en_GB (my preferred language), but I can't find a command which fixes this. It may even correct my keyboard problem. I've entered LANG=pl_PL.iso-8859-2 in my ~/.bash_profile for Polish support, & export LANG=en_GB in ~/.bashrc for language, but locale is still screwed. Also, Godwin, you'd once told me how to collate ls -al with dot files at the top. I found that in the LA archive, but after I'd entered the export LANG=en_GB in .bashrc, my sort's all wacky. What's up with this? Is this all normal for slack? Meph -- All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score. To unsubcribe send e-mail with the word unsubscribe in the body to: Linux-Anyway-Request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?body=unsubscribe