On Friday, May 11, 2007 at 9:07:12 +1200, Roland Hill wrote: > attached as requested. 1 'bad' message in Latin-1 and 1 in utf-8.
Thanks: Both mails are well formed, and are displayed perfectly here. This definitely designates the locale as suspect. What system do you run? Which libc version? What terminal? Could you please run the following commands and report back their output? For the last "printf", please also describe what you see on each line (correct chars, parasite uppercase A with accent, other...). | $ echo $LANG | $ export LANG=en_NZ | $ locale | $ locale charmap | $ locale -a | grep ^en_ | $ printf "L1: won\0264t \0250reply\0250\nU8: won\0302\0264t \0302\0250reply\0302\0250\n" > Thanks for your assistance with this. You're very welcome! Bye! Alain. -- Everything about locales on Sven Mascheck's excellent site at new location <URL:http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/>. The little tester utility is at <URL:http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/checklocale.c>.