>>>>> "Johannes" == HEINECKE Johannes FTRD/DMI/LAN <johannes.heinecke@rd.francetelecom.com> writes: Johannes> I just tried Johannes> unsetenv LC_CTYPE Johannes> and the '?' was gone... :-) Johannes> So your suspicions seems to be the right track Could you try this patch? I'm not sure it will help. If not then we'll need to do some debugging. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2002-08/msg00094.html Tom