On 09 Nov 2003 10:57:12 +0100 Bruno Coudoin <bruno.coudoin at free.fr> wrote: Hum, it seems you miss the UTF-8 variant of your locales. Look, on my system I have: locale -a | grep de_DE de_DE de_DE.ISO-8859-1 de_DE.ISO-8859-15 de_DE.UTF-8 Beware, Dutch locale is nl (nl_NL, nl_BE). de is for German Hilaire