(Sorry for the lack of context, this started on c.e.x and moved to private mail, but I think it should be recorded on xemacs-beta so that it's Google-able.) Laurenz> That was it! I have now changed /etc/sysconfig/i18n from Laurenz> LANG="en_US.UTF-8" Laurenz> SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en:de_DE.UTF-8:de_DE:de" Laurenz> SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" Laurenz> to Laurenz> LANG="en_US.ISO8859-1" Laurenz> SUPPORTED="en_US.ISO8859-1:en_US:en:de_DE.ISO8859-1:de_DE:de" Laurenz> SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16" If this works for you, great! However, note that XEmacs doesn't care about SUPPORTED, so (if the semantics of SUPPORTED permit mixing charsets, which I think it probably does), maybe you could use SUPPORTED="en_US.ISO8859-1:en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en:de_DE.UTF-8:de_DE:de" to get more comprehensive i18n support. (Since I don't know that distro, I'm just guessing. But now that you know where to look, I can at least tell you that this shouldn't hurt XEmacs or VM in any way.) -- 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.