That works. However I wonder: why do I need to specifiy a language and country? ISO-8859-1 is ISO-8859-1, independently of any specific country, after all.Try 'LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1' instead. You need the language and country parts there.
BTW, is this specified somewhere? POSIX?
Daniel
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