$ env |grep -E 'XTERM|__CF' XTERM_SHELL=/opt/local/bin/bash __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0 XTERM_LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8 XTERM_VERSION=XTerm(281) I don't know where XTERM_LOCALE comes from, but from the name it sounds like that could be the culprit. Rainer