The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.emacs.xemacs as well. FUT: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Erwan> (set-language-environment "Latin-9") Erwan> However, when I use xemacs -nw, iso-8859-15 text is saved Erwan> in UTF-8. What did I do wrong ? Are you still seeing this? If so, I wonder if `set-language-environment' is setting the coding priority list correctly. What does M-: (car (coding-priority-list)) RET tell you? -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py