Felix Lechner dixit: >Feel free to try it. The test case is attached. tglase@tglase-nb:~ $ perl /tmp/x Wide character in say at /tmp/x line 13. UTF-8: ✓ (☃) So lintian maybe behaves different from that testcase? bye, //mirabilos -- 15:41⎜<Lo-lan-do:#fusionforge> Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld :-)