Hi, I'm using autoyast-installation on SuSE 8.2 (I know it's old but I don't have a choice). I used the YaST GUI tool to create the inital configuration, and the resulting xml file looks OK. It works, it builds the boxes OK, runs my post-install script OK etc etc However, the time is set to 5 hours forward and the encoding is ANSI-1968, when it should be ISO-8859-1. It looks to me like the default US locale has been used instead. Here's the relevant bit of autoinst.xml <general> <clock> <hwclock>localtime</hwclock> <timezone>Europe/London</timezone> </clock> <keyboard> <keymap>english-uk</keymap> </keyboard> <language>en_GB</language> ... I can see nowhere else to specify which character encoding is used. A normal manual install sets it correctly to ISO-8859-1 Help! Have I missed something? Regards, Andrew Wallace Linux Administrator/Developer Siemens Business Services Coventry Tel: 02476 838433 Mob: 07766 560211