Hello This is a odd problem: I write informatica which should be expanded to informática, however it gets expanded to informática Edit-abbrevs indeed gives me: "informatica" 17 "informática" Which is not the right thing. So I open my .abbrevs_defs file (which looks ok) the coding system is set to UTF8, so I set the coding back to iso-8859-1, write the file, restart xemacs, but no again that problem occurs. - why does xemacs 21.4.19 no work with a UTF8 coding for the abbrevs? - why can't I set the iso-8859-1 coding? Uwe Brauer _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta