Hi, Ok, what have you done this time with charsets.. man less: -Kcharset Causes less to use this charset instead of a charset defined in the JLESSCHARSET or LESSCHARSET environment variable. ($:~) echo "åöä hi mom" >moreisless ($:~) less moreisless &&& hi mom ($:~) more moreisless åöä hi mom So how to fix this? -- Jani Ollikainen http://iki.fi/bestis/