diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index c69f140..bf861fe 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 sql=true
 AC_MSG_CHECKING( Are we using flex )
 if test "x$LEX" = "xflex"; then
-LFLAGS="$LFLAGS -i"
+LFLAGS="$LFLAGS -i -8"
 AC_MSG_RESULT( yes );
 else
 AC_MSG_RESULT( no - SQL engine disable);
diff --git a/src/sql/lexer.l b/src/sql/lexer.l
index 32a9ce6..be17e54 100644
--- a/src/sql/lexer.l
+++ b/src/sql/lexer.l
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ like		{ return LIKE; }
 		return IDENT;
 	}
 
-[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_#@]*		{ yylval.name = strdup(yytext); return NAME; }
+[a-z\xa0-\xff][a-z0-9_#@\xa0-\xff]*		{ yylval.name = strdup(yytext); return NAME; }
 
 '[^']*''  {
 		yyless(yyleng-1);
@@ -74,10 +74,13 @@ like		{ return LIKE; }
 		return STRING;
 	}
 
-(-*[0-9]+|([0-9]*\.[0-9]+)([eE][-+]?[0-9]+)?) { 
-				yylval.name = strdup(yytext); return NUMBER; 
-			}
-~?(\/?[A-Za-z0-9\.]+)+		{ yylval.name = strdup(yytext); return PATH; }
+(-*[0-9]+|([0-9]*\.[0-9]+)(e[-+]?[0-9]+)?) {
+		yylval.name = strdup(yytext); return NUMBER;
+	}
+~?(\/?[a-z0-9\.\xa0-\xff]+)+ {
+		yylval.name = strdup(yytext); return PATH;
+	}
+
 .	{ return yytext[0]; }
 %%
 
diff --git a/src/sql/mdbsql.c b/src/sql/mdbsql.c
index b455960..61956af 100644
--- a/src/sql/mdbsql.c
+++ b/src/sql/mdbsql.c
@@ -806,4 +806,3 @@ mdb_sql_dump_results(MdbSQL *sql)
 	/* the column and table names are no good now */
 	mdb_sql_reset(sql);
 }
-
diff --git a/src/util/mdb-sql.c b/src/util/mdb-sql.c
index a70a2f0..b3e2d86 100644
--- a/src/util/mdb-sql.c
+++ b/src/util/mdb-sql.c
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ char *readline(char *prompt)
 char *buf, line[1000];
 int i = 0;
 
-	printf("%s",prompt);
+	puts(prompt);
 	if (! fgets(line,1000,stdin)) {
 		return NULL;
 	}
@@ -91,6 +91,15 @@ int i = 0;
 }
 #endif
 
+static int strlen_utf(const char *s) {
+	int len = 0;
+	while (*s) {
+		if ((*s++ & 0xc0) != 0x80)
+			len++;
+	}
+	return len;
+}
+
 void
 do_set_cmd(MdbSQL *sql, char *s)
 {
@@ -215,25 +224,22 @@ void print_value(FILE *out, char *v, int sz, int first)
 int i;
 int vlen;
 
-	if (first) {
-		fprintf(out,"|");
-	}
-	vlen = strlen(v);
-	for (i=0;i<sz;i++) {
-		fprintf(out,"%c",i >= vlen ? ' ' : v[i]);
-	}
-	fprintf(out,"|");
+	if (first)
+		fputc('|', out);
+	vlen = strlen_utf(v);
+	fputs(v, out);
+	for (i=vlen;i<sz;i++)
+		fputc(' ', out);
+	fputc('|', out);
 }
 static void print_break(FILE *out, int sz, int first)
 {
 int i;
-	if (first) {
-		fprintf(out,"+");
-	}
-	for (i=0;i<sz;i++) {
-		fprintf(out,"-");
-	}
-	fprintf(out,"+");
+	if (first)
+		fputc('+', out);
+	for (i=0;i<sz;i++)
+		fputc('-', out);
+	fputc('+', out);
 }
 void print_rows_retrieved(FILE *out, unsigned long row_count)
 {