>>>> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof
<vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes: 
    Jan> You are running under Mule are you? If then you need the ucs-conv
    Jan> package and you need to (require 'ucs-conv). This loads the necessary
    Jan> tables for Unicode support
Yep.  I didn't have the ucs-conv package. (I thought xemacs sumo and
xemacs mule sumo had everything, but apparently not.)
This fixes the problem I was seeing.  However, I couldn't find a
(provide 'ucs-conv), but so I did a (require 'xemacs-ucs) instead.  Or 
do I need to rebuild xemacs for it to see all of the autoload stuff?
It's been a while....
Thanks for you help!
Ray