Thanks for your response Tim. After poking around some more on the forums I realized I wasn't asking exactly the right question. I did change my terminal settings however as per your suggestion! I have a bunch of files on my Fedora box that I've copied over from a Windows machine. Some of the filenames contain diacritical characters (French accented characters for example). I'm trying to read these files in to a Java app, but the app both interprets the filename incorrectly (when compared to the Windows counterpart) and fails to load in the file. As an example, it displays what should be a 'é' as the square box. Java grabs the locale from the system, and it believes it to be 'UTF-8' on Linux and 'Cp1252' on Windows. Also, even after changing my console to expect UTF-8 encoded characters, it still does not display the characters correctly. Thanks again for your time! -- This is an email sent via The Fedora Community Portal https://fcp.surfsite.org https://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=181681&topic_id=39996&forum=10#forumpost181681 If you think, this is spam, please report this to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and/or blame jmcphail@xxxxxxxxxxx