The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.emacs.xemacs as well. Dmitry> Exactly like in info. It turned out that it works only Dmitry> half-way. While C-x C-f foobar.zzz encoding utf-8 is used Dmitry> to read file from disk, but buffer-file-coding-system Dmitry> stays "koi8-r", and problem persists. I wonder if this has to do with Mule-UCS, or maybe with the koi8-r coding system. I've not experienced this problem with Japanese. Dmitry> Is it bug? Is it feature? How can I go about Dmitry> patching/circumventing it? It's a design bug and the way to fix it is not obvious, what you're doing probably works most all of the time; I'll take a more careful look. Dmitry> I tried to modify code above to pass coding to Dmitry> insert-file-contents-post-hook hooks and put there hook: Dmitry> (defun my-set-buffer-file-coding-system (fname visit Dmitry> coding &optional foo) (setq buffer-file-coding-system Dmitry> coding)) Dmitry> So far it "Works For Me". Is it the right way to do it? In this area, if it works for you, that's the best you're going to get. I'd be careful about backing up my files. Sorry. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.