> What's the output of locale ? # locale LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8" LC_ALL= > Can you also try: > > LC_ALL=C /opt/perl/bin/perl -wle 'mkdir("/tmp/blurfl",0777); mkdir > ("/tmp/blurfl",0777) or die $!;' # LC_ALL=C /opt/perl/bin/perl -wle 'mkdir("/tmp/blurfl",0777); mkdir ("/tmp/blurfl",0777) or die $!;' 17 at -e line 1.Thread Previous | Thread Next