> > 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. > > This could be a bug in Perl and their partial UTF8 hack Could be... But there is one last thing I would like to try. My changes (-k3) don't seem to have had any effect, so I'm trying something similar but different. Please get: http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/sensors-detect-k4 and tell me, again, it it behaves differently with and without an UTF-8 locale. Thanks a lot for your precious help. -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/