MF> Looks like a bug to me, I believe the coding system cookie MF> should have priority over file-coding-system-alist. GNU Emacs MF> does it like that. Mike> I still think this is a bug and it is still there in XEmacs Mike> 21.4.12 with sumos from 2003-02-05. GNU Emacs, as usual, has a million layers of cruft in the way it handles coding cookies. Recent experience with them in Python 2.3 just confirms my opinion that they are evil. Ivan Golubev submitted a package which basically lifts the GNU code directly into XEmacs. I'll see that it gets committed as a package, probably part of fsf-compat. Anything beyond that is the stable release manager's call. -- 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.