Not life threatening, but this is a problem/fault that has bugged me since installing LM7.2 a couple of months ago with UK English support. Gnome-terminal displays the backslash character as a Y symbol with two crossbars (Yen symbol?) yet all other applications, as far as I can see, including xterm, treat it correctly. Does anybody know if there are any setup tables or configuration files for Gnome which control this kind of behaviour? Oddly enough, in the Settings->Preferences popup window, "Select-by-word characters" entry field, the backslash is a backslash, with a preceding backslash to make it literal. ??? Cheers -- Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation