Hello As I said before babel.el is a very nice package and I hope to make it run smoothly under xemacs. There are two remaining problems concerning the coding, by this I mean for the moment non-ascii (mostly iso-8859-1). - the input contains non-ascii (say german->english) - the output contains non-ascii (say english->german) I must add that everything works fine under GNU emacs 22, for which this pkg was written but the author was friendly enough to make it run under Xemacs save this coding problems. I will concentrate for the moment to Xemacs 21.4.19 Mule. And I start with the first problem the input non ascii (German->English) When I open a new file and type höchst (like highest) and save the file as test in iso-8859-1 coding (file test gives test: ISO-8859 text Or even as raw text-unix Than everything works fine with babel Now the problem is if I have set in my init file (require 'un-define) (set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8) ;Version:1.171 (register-input-method "TeX" "UTF-8" 'quail-use-package "\\" "LaTeX-like input method for many characters." "latin-ltx") (set-coding-priority-list '(utf-8)) (set-coding-category-system 'utf-8 'utf-8) I open a new file and type again höchst I save the file (file test2: ISO-8859 text)!!!! No UTF-8! but babel fails: Produces stuff which I attach Now I save the file explicitly via set-buffer-file-coding-system to utf-8 and right file test2 tells me it is utf8 but again babel fails the way I described. I am very puzzled by this can somebody please enlighten me. The next mail describe the problem with the output when the output contains non-ascii. Uwe Brauer _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta