I am running a new install of RH8. I had been having trouble with character display in ncurses displays and man pages. I started comparing some of my variable definitions to those on my 7.3 machine. I noticed that the LANG variable was defined as en_US.UTF-8 on my 8.0 machine, and en_US on my 7.3 machine. I temporarily changed the variable to en_US on my 8.0 machine, and this seemed to resolve the issue. How will this change impact other applications, and where this variable is defined so I can change it globally? Thank you, Jim Zimmerman