Hi.

When I log into my system (Mandrake Linux 9.1) as root,
the following message appears:

Already in UTF8 mode

, and problems arise with some latin characters, such as à, è, ù, etc.,
which are not input, and other various characters,
which are not correctly displayed.
This problem arose after a laborious installation
of 'scim' and 'mule-gbk' packages, along with some system configuring
operations
in order to type and read chinese characters.
Does anybody know how to cancel this UTF8 mode off?

Thanks in advance,
Rodolfo

All I can think of is doing it in the kernel...

Can't say at the moment where the switch is but it's there, I guess you NLS default Language is set ti UTF-8.

/Zappa