Hi, you could check all the different places for encoding settings. For instance your kernel configurations: grep -vh '^#' /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -v '^$' | grep -i nls Also there are samba, nfs (or whatever you are using to share), /etc/fstab (e.g. iocharset) and a mounting daemon like HAL (in case you're using that). And what does 'locale' tell you? What's the system locale? Regards Sebastian ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.