Aidan> Perhaps this was obvious to everyone else, but it occurs to Aidan> me that once we have an internal encoding based on the UCS, Aidan> we can leverage Ben’s work with the existing Unicode coding Aidan> systems, which convert between Unicode and the Mule coding, Aidan> for redisplay with server-side X11 fonts. Simply convert to Aidan> the Mule encoding before using the existing redisplay code, Aidan> much as the Xft and Windows code presently converts to Aidan> Unicode before redisplay. Basically, this is how XEmacs/UTF-2000 worked (ca 1999). So, yes, it will work. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering 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.