Thank you, Stephen and Yoshiki, Yoshiki: Yes, I do now remember that I copied hebrew.el from my FSF Emacs leim directory to my xemacs leim directory. When I try C-u C-\ TAB, I do get the choice "hebrew". When I select it, I get no error message, but my input does not change (indeed, I tried it at the beginning of this sentence). The various latin-* methods work fine, as do the cyrillic methods and ipa. I did try installing hebrew and miscellaneous other fonts from FSF's intlfonts, and this made no difference. Incidentally if I try "load-file" of .../emacs/20.7/lisp/language/hebrew.elc, as Steven Turnbull suggests, I get the error message: "Wrong number of arguments: #<subr make-coding-system>, 6". Per Stephen's request, here is a description of my system: uname -a: Linux iqara 2.2.14 #1 Fri Mar 17 12:00:18 GMT 2000 i686 unknown ./configure '--with-mule' '--with-site-lisp' '--with-pop' '--without-xim' XEmacs 21.1.12 "Channel Islands" configured for `i686-pc-linux'. Where should the build process find the source code? /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-21.1.12 What installation prefix should install use? /usr/local What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use? `s/linux.h' and `m/intel386.h' What compiler should XEmacs be built with? gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.) Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? yes What window system should XEmacs use? x11 Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/X11/include Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/X11R6/lib Compiling in support for XAUTH. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG image handling. Compiling in support for (builtin) GIF image handling. Compiling in support for JPEG image handling. Compiling in support for TIFF image handling. Compiling in native sound support. Compiling in support for Berkeley DB. Compiling in support for GNU DBM. Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse). Compiling in Mule (multi-lingual) support. Compiling in support for proper session-management. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Compiling in DLL support. movemail will use "dot-locking" for locking mail spool files. Using POP for mail access Using Lisp_Objects with minimal tagbits. Thanks for your indulgence, Daniel Wolk