Hi Akim, $ LC_ALL=C $coreutilsbin/printf '\u2022\n' | od -t x1 0000000 3f 0a 0000002
$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 $coreutilsbin/printf '\u2022\n' | od -t x1 0000000 e2 80 a2 0a 0000004 FYI, I have very limited locale. $ locale -a C POSIX en_US.ISO8859-1 en_US.ISO8859-15 en_US.ISO8859-15@euro en_US.UTF-8 ja_JP.PCK ja_JP.UTF-8 ja_JP.UTF-8@cldr ja_JP.eucJP Regards, --- Kiyoshi