[newbie] 'Already in UTF8 mode' message appearing

Hi. I already posted this message, getting no answer. I'm trying again: maybe this time someone will read it that can provide help. -- When I log into my system (Mandrake Linux 9.1) as root, the following message appears: Already in UTF

[newbie] 'Already in UTF8 mode' message appearing

Hi, all. When I log into my system (Mandrake Linux 9.1) as root, the following message appears: Already in UTF8 mode , and some latin characters, such as à, è, ù, etc, are not displayed. Any suggestion about how to work this problem out? Thanks, Rodolfo ___