The bug-gnucobol mailing list is likely not the right place for it, its description says: > This list distributes bug reports and fixes to GnuCOBOL maintainers. I've forwarded this to the users' list as its description says: > List for general questions, user-oriented topics and announcements. Concerning your question: why guess? What happens if you have UTF-8 in your source code? Note: You'll then likely using -free, or otherwise ensure that the number of *bytes* does not exceed the right margin, like moving it to the right with something like -ftext-column=255. A simple DISPLAY `Why not? äüöß" *> I suggest to also try the uppercase ß should work if the source encording matches your terminal - extended screenio may need something "more". What does cobcrun --info says about the screen library used? I *guess* ncursesw? Please report back to the users' list about your test results. Thank you, Simon Am 11.05.2020 um 20:40 schrieb Administrator: > Hello, > > just I am guessing how to display "Umlaute" in GNUCOBOL 3.x when using > UTF-8 stanadrd fonts in GNOME-terminal (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS)? > > Any suggestions? > > Greetings from Germany. > > >