On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 10:06:08PM +0100, Kirk McElhearn wrote: : : On 3/26/04 8:10 PM, "Michael Grant" <soft at bdanube.com> wrote: : : > Aha! My file was in UTF8 encoding, which I have set as the default in : > BBEdit. It worked when I changed it to MacRoman. Kind of a drag, : > actually--I thought the shell was more Unicode-savvy. : : I thought bash was? In fact, that was what I heard was one of the main : reasons why Apple switched from tcsh. According to this, it's one reason: http://macslash.org/comments.pl?sid=3642&op=&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=47311#47373 However, if your stuff isn't UTF-8, it probably won't work. -- Eugene Lee http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/