SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: :-) Problem is, I don't have the old system any longer ... but I don't recall any special system settings I might have forgotten during the switch, you know, sort of standard installation to get things running fast, never mind warnings in the beginning. Only thing I know is that xterms also showed up the locale warnings. Perhaps, the path to the locale directory (aliases) can't be found, although /usr/lib/X11/locale looks straight enough. I had some of the LC_XXX variables set (LANG and CTYPE I guess) in my profile. This bothered ... Norbert. -- What a day, what a day, if you can look it in the face and hold your vomit!