Hi Don,
I don't understand "C" settings, but William Yu asked me to look in "locale" and every line in it seems to end in en_US except one line that says "LC_ALL="
well all of mine end in "C"
I'm reasonably certain that the RB shell is sending arguments in UTF-8 and the system is looking for something else. Arguments sent in WindowsAnsi or ISOLatin1 both work correctly with Spanish accented characters on my Mepis Linux system.
here's what I added and that now works for my French paths and names : ashell1.writeline "export LANG=fr_FR;lsof -Fn -p "+pid.text
when I've retrieved the data I convert the UTF8 to Macroman and all is fine. So you may want to pass the export LANG the abbrevaition for spanish or maybe ISO-8859-1 and tag your command converted to UTF8 as the second, separated as Joe said by a semi colon
hope this helps Fred PS if you reply perhaps you could cc me as I'm in digest mode _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
