On FC2 (and earlier RedHat) systems, error messages from gcc seem to have been straight ASCII. On a couple of FC4 systems, output includes some non-ASCII characters; specifically, the characters used for single quotes (previous ` and ') have been replaced by something multi-byte. (I base this claim on redirecting stderr into a file and then displaying file contents with "od -c".) The sequence that replaces ' displays okay, but the sequence that replaces ` does not (appears as boldface u with umlaut). My guess is that there's an environment variable somewhere that's not getting set quite right; the man page for gcc seems to be indicating that what gets produced for error messages is controlled by environment variables LANG and LC_MESSAGES. LC_MESSAGES is unset; LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8. Anyone know how to make the error messages display properly? -- blm
