Alan Corey wrote: > Bingo, could that be because I use tcsh and probably switched to it > before I installed Abiword? > > locale says: > > LANG= > LC_COLLATE="C" > LC_CTYPE="C" > LC_MONETARY="C" > LC_NUMERIC="C" > LC_TIME="C" > LC_MESSAGES="C" > LC_ALL=
Does adding this to ~/.xsession (if you use xdm) or ~/.xinitrc (if you use startx) change anything? > export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"