Hi all, I'm running some DBI code on a Red Hat server and failing to correctly display umlauts (üÜ). Initially I thought it was a NLS_LANG problem, but found it to be what I'd call a code page problem if I was running on a Windows platform. This code prints gubble-de-gook (where the umlaurts should be): #!/usr/bin/perl print "Umlaut : üÜ\n"; But if I unset LANG it runs... *but* then I can't then use vi to edit the umlauts. Can some clever monk please explain how LANG (and anthing I've missed) affect the translation of what you type and what get displayed and why vi doesn't use the same mechanism. Cheers Tony

In reply to LANG setting and code pages by adolpht

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