Ben> What system [exactly!] are you running, and what are the names Ben> of the locales [look in /usr/share/locale or /usr/lib/locale], Ben> and what are the encodings [if you know this and it's not Ben> obvious from the name]? FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE #0: ru_RU.KOI8-R IRIX 6.5: ru [Uses iso-8859-5] Solaris 2.6 seems to call its Russian locale `ru' like IRIX, but it isn't clear what character set it wants as someone didn't want to install all of the necessary fonts and the oh-so-useful 2.6 locale files don't say. I seem to remember that iso-8859-5 would be used, but I can't find anything definitive for Solaris at the moment. It's also worth noting that the locale for FreeBSD worked for me in all releases of 2.2.x and 3.x. -- Matt Curtin cmcurtin(a)interhack.net http://www.interhack.net/people/cmcurtin/