On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Adeodato Simó wrote: > hi Gavin, can you tell us if you're using a UTF-8 locale? > (`locale charmap` == UTF-8). I think this bug is the same as #254314, > which is in fact a libc6 bug. the same backtrace is observed: Yes, I am: gavin@ravioli gavin> locale charmap UTF-8 Thanks for this, Gavin