H V <boite_anti_spam(a)yahoo.fr&gt; writes: Is "Propriétaire" your user name you log on with? It's probably a matter of telling XEmacs about the correct locale to use. Perhaps others on this lists know how. Using M-! (shell-command) in XEmacs, try this: M-! set RET It will list all your environment variables. Then, in that buffer using M-x occur RET Documents and Settings You will see something similar to this: 4 matches for "Documents and Settings" in buffer: *Shell Command Output* 1:ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users 2:APPDATA=C:\Documents and Settings\AichnerAd\Application Data 12:HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\AichnerAd 43:USERPROFILE=C:\Documents and Settings\AichnerAd You could try adding a user without accents in its name and copy the "Propriétaire" data there, but I would save that option as a last resort. Good Luck, Adrian -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/