On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 13:36 -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Could some bizzarre change in unicode settings be affecting the way > scripts are being compiled post-startup?
That sounds like a good guess. However, you would expect that sort of problem to be repeatable and consistent. This seems to just randomly trash your I/O at various points, leading to different kinds of errors. You could try explicitly setting your locale environment variables and see if it helps. - Perrin
