This change in the 21.1.9 CVS version breaks Gnus: 1999-12-03 Yoshiki Hayashi <t90553(a)mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt; * lisp/mule-misc.el (coding-system-get): Imported from 21.2. (coding-system-put): Ditto. (coding-category): Imported from 21.2 and modified for 21.2. The problem is the following test in Gnus 5.8.3 (file lisp/mm-util.el): (defun mm-preferred-coding-system (charset) ;; A typo in some Emacs versions. (or (get-charset-property charset 'prefered-coding-system) (get-charset-property charset 'preferred-coding-system))) (defun mm-mime-charset (charset) "Return the MIME charset corresponding to the MULE CHARSET." (if (fboundp 'coding-system-get) ;; This exists in Emacs 20. (or (and (mm-preferred-coding-system charset) (coding-system-get (mm-preferred-coding-system charset) 'mime-charset)) (and (eq charset 'ascii) 'us-ascii) (mm-preferred-coding-system charset) (mm-mule-charset-to-mime-charset charset)) ;; This is for XEmacs. (mm-mule-charset-to-mime-charset charset))) Two problems with the code: The first one is XEmacs: XEmacs now has coding-system-get - but it doesn't have get-charset-property. If we have coding-system-get should we also have get-charset-property? The other one is Gnus: Lars, can you change this to check properly XEmacs (sorry, I don't have a patch)? Thanks, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs aj(a)suse.de private aj(a)arthur.rhein-neckar.de