I seem to recall some limited discussion previously regarding the UTF-8 support that was introduced as far back as RH8. I recently ran into this problem again on FC2 when installing a package that uses perl. To resolve the problem I needed to edit the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file and remove the .UTF-8 from the LANG variable. I don't think this is a bug in perl. As such why the insistence that UTF-8 be the default? What does this really buy? Any chance of getting this changed in future releases? -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Have you noticed the way people's intelligence capabilities decline sharply the minute they start waving guns around? -- Dr. Who