Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; さんは書きました: Great, that works. I think that should be the default in the Japanese language environment because - XEmacs 21.4.x handled these German umlauts as single width in Japanese language environment - GNU Emacs 21.3 also handles them as single width in Japanese language environment. It may be debatable whether Russian for example should be handled as double or single width because Russian characters have the EastAsianAmbiguous property in Unicode. But the German umlauts do not have the EastAsianAmbiguous property, i.e. they should never be treated as double width. See: http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/EastAsianWidth.txt Characters like ± (U+00B1 PLUS-MINUS SIGN) might cause problems. U+00B1 has the EastAsianAmbiguous but is in latin-iso8859-1. With your above value of (language-unicode-precedence-list) it will be handled as single width. It is probably not possible to handle U+00B1 as double width in XEmacs and handle German Umlauts as single width at the same time. Anyway, not such a serious problem, I think it is good enough for the moment to handle all of them as single width as this was done in XEmacs 21.4.x and is still done in GNU Emacs and handling them as double width doesn't seem to have an advantage. -- Mike FABIAN <mfabian(a)suse.de&gt; http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。