hello, i get weird characters in man pages. Here's an example from "man find" OPTIONS The â-Hâ, â-Lâ and â-Pâ options control the chars surrounding -H and -L and -P.... (i don't know the charset used by this mail agent i'm posting with...) My env variables are : TERM=xterm SHELL=/bin/bash HISTSIZE=1000 SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/0 LS_COLORS=no=00:fi=00:di=00;34:ln=00;36:pi=40;33:so=00;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=01;05;37;41:mi=01;05;37;41:ex=00;32:*.cmd=00;32:*.exe=00;32:*.com=00;32:*.btm=00;32:*.bat=00;32:*.sh=00;32:*.csh=00;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:*.bz2=00;31:*.bz=00;31:*.tz=00;31:*.rpm=00;31:*.cpio=00;31:*.jpg=00;35:*.gif=00;35:*.bmp=00;35:*.xbm=00;35:*.xpm=00;35:*.png=00;35:*.tif=00;35: PAGER=/usr/bin/less INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc EDITOR=vi LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PS1=[\u@\h:\w] SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass SHLVL=1 CVS_RSH=ssh LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 _=/bin/env uname -a Linux ... 2.6.18-53.el5 #1 SMP Wed Oct 10 16:34:19 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux bash --version GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. less --version less 394 Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Mark Nudelman I don't have any LC* env vars, I suppose LANG replaces those. Any clues? regards,