On 04Mar2007 11:03, Colin Paul Adams <colin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Thanks for that. I am using the default, I think. At least, I can see | nothing locale-related in my environment other than: | LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 | Shouldn't unzip be taking notice of this then? Depends. Unzip may simply not care either - it may just be a byte string to it. Also, the unzip format may not record the source encoding; if you don't know the source encoding you can't recode for the target system. You may need to recode yourself. Several months ago I wrote a little python program to recode MP3 filenames from UNIX (presuming a plain ISO8859-1 character set) into UTF-8 for HFS on a Mac (yeah, iTunes:-). Here: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/bin/macify You might want to adapt it to your use. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today. If you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow...