shell echo do not print special letters

[sigbj-st]

Possible bug?

SuSE 10.0 on a laptop Asus W5A
kernel 2.6

Running SCRIPTS as bash do not give off special letters for Norwegian following 
the echo command.The letters will lack as holes.

This is NOT the case on a commandline in a console. It is further NOT the case 
with the same scripts running on SuSE 7.3 on kernel 2.4
This is no big problem as long as the scripts are running,but is it anything I 
can do about it or is it a bug?

Similar things happened in the 'less' prg of SuSE 7.3; there I had to install 
the 'less' from SuSE 7.0. In other words:
Exchange 'less 358-134' with 'less 354-33'.
This solved the letter-mess with just a minor error message.

Sigbjorn Storset
Norway