A number of utilities, including bison, m4 and findutils, install a charset.alias file under Mac OS X, and this breaks the locale system (any locale is regarded as UTF-8) [*]. The problem has been around for a couple of years.
Moreover, even if it didn't break anything, the file is overwritten when another such software is installed. [*] http://trac.macports.org/ticket/11474 http://trac.macports.org/ticket/11968 http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17084 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)