hi, do you mean KDE konsole? have you tried the "encoding" entry in the "settings" menu? it might help. Miquel On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 08:21 -0700, Robert Dodier wrote: > > i can't figure out how to view the utf-8 docs -- > i set LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8 and run maxima / clisp in konsole, > but special characters are goofed up. > how is UTF-8 supposed to work?