[ cleaning up my "submitted bugs" mailbox ] This somehow got fixed (AFAIK around 2000). At least in current sid xterm works just fine WRT locales. Actually this seems like a duplicate of bug 46102, which was closed a long time ago. Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <porridge@debian.org> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216