Problems with ODBC: Unable to load locale categories

Hello all, I'm running an informix 7.1 database on a sun ultra 1 (SunOS 5.5.1). I'm trying to access the tables from a PC using the ISG-Navigator ODBC connectivity package. The connection is made and the server demon starts the appropriate agent which then fails with: Error -461: Unable to load locale categories. This seems to be an informix error rather than one specific to ISG-Navigator (I get exactly the same problem with OpenLink). Other people have posted similar problems but the solutions have been specific to CLI(?) connections (eg. run informix/bin/regcopy.exe on the client - but I don't have any informix stuff on the client). I'm not trying to do anything clever with nls. The database was created (using isql) with the default 'C' locale by the same username (and environment) as is being used in the ODBC connection. I think I lack basic understanding of what's going on. Can any one explain? I take it this is about the libraries under /usr/lib/locale/... What locale is being loaded, the local of the database or the locale of the session? (though in my case they should be the same). Why can't it load it from an ODBC agent if it can from an interactive login with the same environment? Why does the error message seem so smug when you read it for the umpteenth time? Why don't help desks help? please don't be cruel if I've asked a daft question, I am a bear of very little brain. Bob. bob@drutty.demon.co.uk -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Now offering spam-free web-based newsreading