Out of curiousity, what do these environment variables do? on my Arch Linux system, LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8 but LC_MESSAGES is not set at all. I'll have to observe next time I'm in a console if any thare are any issues with funny characters. On 07/22/2009 06:32 AM, Chris Brannon wrote: >> Is this one of those iso/utf-8 quirks or something that can be >> fixed by setting something in the environment, > > Michael, > Try setting your LANG and LC_MESSAGES environment variables to en_US > on login. It does look like a UTF-8 problem. > > -- Chris > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup