Hello Balu, thank for your hint, seems no locales were selected at system installation. # dpkg-reconfigure locales made everything work. Thank you all! Yours, Christof -- _______________________________________________________________ Configo Systems GmbH - Jahnstr. 62 - 64285 Darmstadt Tel 06151-39656-0 Fax 06151-39656-49 http://www.configo.de