Yes, LANG=C fixes it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/devel/kernel/patches/linux-2.6$ LANG=C grep -w alloca kernel/pid.c [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/devel/kernel/patches/linux-2.6$ grep -w alloca kernel/pid.c * Generic pidhash and scalable, time-bounded PID allocator [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/devel/kernel/patches/linux-2.6$ locale LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_ALL=
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