This one's a bit odd; Tim's locale is being detected as an ISO-8859-1 locale (see the log), not UTF-8. I'd imagine spewing ISO-8859-1 to a terminal that's expecting UTF-8 will make things explode rather in all sorts of interesting ways, no matter what program you're using--I'd be shocked if even "man" works right on this terminal, with its use of extended hyphens and quotation marks.
Switching from en_AU to en_AU.UTF-8 should fix things; this may require a dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales to establish the needed locale and then a choice at gdm/kdm/whatever to change into the UTF-8 locale. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]