> > 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. > > That seemed to fix it!!! "Ah ah ah (evil laugh) you nasty little bug, you thought you could lurk forever? Diiiiiiiie!" Ahhhh I feel better :) For the ones interested, the solution was to call binmode(IOPORTS, ':raw') after opening '/dev/ports'. The ':raw' keyword, among other things, prevents Perl from using the UTF-8 layer on file I/O (where available). I did not find this first because I don't have Perl 5.8.0 on my development machine, and this layers thing is new in 5.8.0. I was told on IRC to have a look at the binmode perldoc page on Perl 5.8.0, which I did, and it led me to the solution. Ok Jim, thanks a lot for your help again. I'll commit a clean fix to sensors-detect to CVS today. -- Jean Delvare http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/