Hi Chris, I dont see why this should matter, but it is an obvious difference in our set-ups = the locale settings? can you try setting these and see what happens? thanks jim my settings: > Kernel: Linux 2.6.5 > Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE="en_US" LC_NUMERIC="en_US" LC_TIME="en_US" LC_COLLATE="en_US" LC_MONETARY="en_US" LC_MESSAGES="en_US" LC_PAPER="en_US" LC_NAME="en_US" LC_ADDRESS="en_US" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" LC_ALL= [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
