B Wooster wrote: > Do I need to worry about breaking something else if I set LANG > globally to just "en_US"? then: > I tried Putty - it does display man pages correctly, but I could not > fix the line drawing characters, so mutt, slrn, did not display > lines/arrows correctly. In PuTTY Configuration -> Window -> Translation, under "Received data assumed to be in which character set", choose UTF-8. And in the Connection category, set "Terminal-type string" to "linux". Mutt works fine in Putty for me. James. -- James Wilkinson | In poker you have to show your hand eventually if Exeter Devon UK | called. So far SCO have with great reluctance shown E-mail address: james | only one card, which turned out to be "Mr Bun, The @westexe.demon.co.uk | Baker". -- Electric Dragon on groklaw.net