I do knot a better place to ask. What is the relationship between the locales in glibc and the xml based locale data being built by Unicode? Somebody was ,emtopmomg that Unicode's http://www.unicode.org/cldr CLDR (common locale data repository), which stores locale data in XML is intended as a replacement for the posix style locales. I might have got some things wrong, but still... -- Mahesh T. Pai <<>> http://paivakil.port5.com