P.S. Does this help? $ locale LANG= LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.ISO8859-1 LC_TIME=en_US.ISO8859-1 LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=en_US.ISO8859-1 LC_MESSAGES=C LC_ALL= Regards, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies garyjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Wireless Division http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/ | Spokane, Washington, USA