logging in gives as any user: # echo $LANG en_US.ISO-8859-15 but if you do "su - myuser", the user does not have this language set. where does this come from? # apt-show-versions | grep locale localepurge/unstable uptodate 0.0.48 locales/unstable uptodate 2.3.1-17 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com