cgf, The next time you build less(1), could you build it with wchar support? All you need to do is have libncursesw-devel installed before configuring. Thanks, Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple