On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 05:58:34PM -0500, hvw59601 wrote: > /etc/locale.gen is set to en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15. I'm afraid I'm not offering a proper solution here, but I would implore you to move to UTF-8 for your locale, and any files storing non-ASCII characters. Life is just a little simpler that way.