Ouch, damn right!!! CU82# grep en_US.UTF-8 /etc/*/* /etc/default/locale:LANG="en_US.UTF-8" As I could not read the esc I assumed colors, but you right it sounds like fancy quotes. p4.c: In function M-bM-^@M-^Xp4md_add_sctM-bM-^@M-^Y: I go fix my ssh invocation explicitly setting LANG=C Cheers Phi