> Ok here are the two results snipped for ITE detection.... I guess there were similar errors (Malformed UTF-8 character) for some other chipsets? Anyway, I'm stumped. I was expecting your system to return UTF-8 chars from /dev/ports, and it doesn't seem so (or why would perl say they are malformed?) And if it returns regular chars, why are the values different from the ones obtained with a non-UTF-8 locale? I just don't understand. So from here I only see two possibilities: 1* Opening /dev/ports in binary mode solves the problem (which I doubt, since traditionally, Unix systems don't differenciate text and binary modes). Please grab the modified script that does this and tell me if it works: http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/sensors-detect-k3 2* I just don't know what we can do. In this case, the only thing I can propose is checking for the LANG environment variable, and generate a warning at start is if matches *.UTF8, stating that the user should better restart the script with a non-UTF-8 locale. We can even change the LANG environment variable in the script, but I don't know if that would work (I don't know if Perl "reads" it at the beginning, once for all, or each time its value matters). Jim, would you accept doing some more tests for us? Thanks. -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/
