>> What is the output of "locale" and "locale -a" on this machine? snout:~> locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL= snout:~> locale -a C C.UTF-8 en_GB en_GB.iso88591 en_GB.iso885915 en_GB.utf8 POSIX snout:~>
I had done the reconstruction of the locales with little effect I apologise for my ignorance -- never had to concern myself with such things before ==John ffitch