As I said -- search this list for earlier discussions about Perl. You'll find posts from others with issues similar to yours and which may help you with future work. LANG=en_US is helpful with the current build of Perl. I do not have a complete grasp of all the fine points of internationalization, which is what UTF-8 is about, but the Red Hat build of Perl does not seem happy with it. I don't know if Red Hat will do a fix or not. Bob Cochran On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 20:47, rbragg wrote: > Thanks so much everybody! > > My $LANG variable = en_US.UTF-8 > > Is that OK? > > I remember that there was some minor failures that occured when I ran > "make test" for the perl installation. but at that time, vi was broken, > and I couldn't really do anything. so I ran make install, and it seemed > fine. Should I go back and re-install perl? I still don't know what I > would change, or how I would fix. > > thanks again > I will keep reading the perl docs... > Rick > -- Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html