Norbert Eisinger writes: I'm don't know why there would be a difference between the two versions, unless your OS vendor (SuSE, wasn't it?) made changes. You'd have to ask them about that. I have not done any work on the encoding stuff personally in the last year; you should send your query to <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org&gt; where the people who have made changes recently will see it. I can tell you that ASCII doesn't exist as a separate encoding; it's simply a subset of ISO-8859, and will be detected as the ISO-8859 variant which is appropriate for your locale. ISO-8859-1 is treated somewhat differently from the rest of the ISO-8859 family; it is simply an alternative name for "binary". This probably means that your configuration is slightly different for the two versions. That could easily be true if the OS vendor supplied a defaults.el or site-start.el file. Try doing these tests with "xemacs -vanilla", which prevents loading of the user init file, the site init file, and the site defaults file. Or you could try installing the site files from 21.5.21 in 21.5.27. (Use M-x locate-library RET defaults RET to find the defaults.el file.) We haven't yet spent a lot of effort on the default configuration, especially since the stable version, XEmacs 21.4, is very unreliable in a Unicode environment, and the developers generally use 21.5 and 21.4 in the same environment. SuSE has long since moved to UTF-8 as the default distribution-wide, and they almost surely distribute a site-start file that configures XEmacs in that way. So, I wouldn't call it "your installation problem", but I'm sure you can change the default configuration to get better results. If you can't find the site-start and defaults files from 21.5.21 or they have bad side effects, try M-x coding-priority-list RET in *21.5.21* to get the detection priorities for 21.5.21. Then use M-: (set-coding-priority-list <list>) RET to set *21.5.27* to match. If that works, put (set-coding priority-list <list>) in the site-start file. (We don't distribute one, you'll need to create it if you don't copy from SuSE.) HTH _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta