On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 09:50 +0000, Chris G wrote: > ... but my gnome-terminals still obstinately claim a default of > iso-8859-1. Just to cover all bases: Have you gone through the menus of the gnome-terminals and changed the encoding? Perhaps changing to something else, then trying going back again. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.