On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 09:36:13AM +0100, Iain Hibbert wrote:
> I see that "The behaviour of mbrtowc() is affected by the LC_CTYPE
> category of the current locale" .. do you have any locale settings?

Actually, yes:
LANG=""
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="C"
LC_TIME="C"
LC_NUMERIC="C"
LC_MONETARY="C"
LC_MESSAGES="C"
LC_ALL=""
 Thomas