Hi Rick, > > I'm having problems with RedHat 9. Now it could just be my install, > but someone might be able to help me. I know this is offtopic, but > the problem only reared it's head when installing DateTime. The > problem is this: in shell, I can't type a quote without a seqeunce > such as [quote][x][delete]. It seems that if I type [quote][e] I get > an 'e' with an accute. [quote] seems to have become a meta key for > accents and thus I get only the occasional quote in my Makefile. See > below. > > Does anyone have any idea what's going on? I just tested it in gEdit > under X and I have exactly the same problem
[snipped] I seem to recall something like this in CLPM. I can't find it now, But is had to do the the locale setting The workaround for your original problem is probably to execute the Makefile.PL and the make/make test phase with the locale set to LC_ALL=C. Ron Hill
