Eduards> When I run M-x prefer-coding-system utf-8, I get: Can't Eduards> prefer coding system utf-8. That's an XEmacs bug, I've confirmed it. Evaluating the expression (set-coding-category-system 'utf-8 utf-8) then doing prefer-coding-system should make it work. I don't know exactly what's gone wrong here. Ben? (The full thread is at http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200510/msg00013.html ) Eduards> (Same response with any other coding system) Eduards> Should it work in the latest beta? Any coding system except 'binary or 'iso-8859-1 (by design, since preferring them would completely prevent autodetection), or utf-8 (because of the bug) should work. 'iso-2022-jp and 'iso-8859-15 work for me. -- 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.

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; さんは書きました: I noticed that bug as well already, but I wasn't sure whether it was a bug or not and somehow forgot to ask on the mailing list. The "site-start.el" file of the SuSE XEmacs package currently contains the code below. Note the comment I wrote which says that (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) doesn't work: (defun suse-set-coding-systems () (let* ((tmp (shell-command-to-string "locale charmap")) (tmp (substring tmp 0 (string-match "\[ \t\n\]" tmp))) (tmp (downcase tmp))) (when (find-coding-system (intern tmp)) ;; set the coding system priorities: ;; (this is also important to make XIM in utf-8 work ;; because XEmacs has no variable/function to set the ;; coding-system for XIM, it is just autodetected which ;; will work correctly only when the coding-system priorities ;; are OK.) (if (not (string-match "utf-8" tmp)) (progn (prefer-coding-system (intern tmp)) (if (fboundp 'latin-unity-install) (latin-unity-install))) ;; it's strange, but (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) doesn't ;; work in XEmacs. ;; use 'set-coding-priority-list instead, which achieves ;; the same and works for 'utf-8 as well: (set-coding-priority-list (list (intern tmp))) (set-coding-category-system (intern tmp) (intern tmp))) (if (emacs-version>= 21 5 6) ;; XEmacs 21.5 apparently renamed this function: (set-default-output-coding-systems (intern tmp)) (set-default-coding-systems (intern tmp))) (set-keyboard-coding-system (intern tmp)) (set-terminal-coding-system (intern tmp)) ;; XEmacs 21.5.16 needs this to be able to use non-ASCII file names: (if (and (string-match "XEmacs" emacs-version) (emacs-version>= 21 5 6)) (setq file-name-coding-system (intern tmp))) ;; without the following line, shell buffers are not by default ;; in UTF-8 when running in an UTF-8 locale in XEmacs 21.5.16: (setq process-coding-system-alist (cons (cons ".*" (intern tmp)) '())) ;; these two lines appearently make no difference, if they ;; are used instead of the above process-coding-system-alist, ;; shell buffers still have the wrong encoding: ;; (setq default-process-coding-system-read (intern tmp)) ;; (setq default-process-coding-system-write (intern tmp)) ;; and this doesn't seem to work either: ;; (setq default-process-coding-system '(utf-8 . utf-8)) ;; ;; the following is necessary to enable XEmacs to pass ;; command line arguments to external processes in the correct ;; encoding. For example this is needed to make ;; 'M-x grep' work when searching for UTF-8 strings ;; while running in an UTF-8 locale. ;; (if (and (string-match "XEmacs" emacs-version) (emacs-version>= 21 5 6)) (define-coding-system-alias 'native (intern tmp)))))) (suse-set-coding-systems) -- Mike FABIAN <mfabian(a)suse.de&gt; http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。