On Fri, Sep 02 2011, Hans Müller wrote: > > Hi, > > did you try to set LC_CTYPE (and perhaps the others also) to 'en_US.utf8'? > > Regards
Bingo! Funny that the value recommended in the gentoo localization guide is (for german) LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="C" which I why I used UTF-8. Thank you very much! allan