Hi Mirek, > Generally all character handling "inside" a program using GLib 2 > (and the GNOME 2 platform) should be in UTF-8. The program itself > is responsible for converting data on (e.g. file) input/output. Does this mean that the bug might well be in gnome-terminal? Gnome-terminal forgetting to translate and passing ISO-8859-15 to pango which subsequently crashes? If so I have to change the component back to gnome-terminal. Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research