> <WAG> try setting LANG=somthingotherthanutf-8</WAG> > > fwiw a google for latex and utf-8 returned 21000 hits. $ echo $LANG en_US.UTF-8 $ latex t.tex ... Output written on t.dvi (6 pages, 12384 bytes). Transcript written on t.log $ echo $? 0 Working fine for me with UTF-8 on a fresh install of FC1. -- Ian