I'm having problems displaying russian characters in (S)XEmacsen gutters. I tried XEmacs 21.4.21 and SXEmacs 22.1.10 with Mule support. (set-specifier default-gutter-visible-p t (current-buffer)) (set-specifier top-gutter "Русский" (current-buffer)) It displays gargabe in the gutter, something like "Рскй(e". Sometimes (S)XEmacs crashes after i set russian in the gutter for several times. Here is the backtrace of XEmacs crash (unfortunately i have no debug symbols in it): (gdb) where #0 0x2884a1a7 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x080b032b in fatal_error_signal () #2 0xbfbfff94 in ?? () #3 0x0000000b in ?? () #4 0x0000000c in ?? () #5 0xbfbfceb0 in ?? () #6 0x12081208 in ?? () #7 0x080b0224 in ensure_no_quitting_from_now_on () #8 0x0817d4a9 in create_string_text_block () #9 0x0817de69 in generate_string_display_line () #10 0x0817e048 in generate_displayable_area () #11 0x0814b35d in calculate_gutter_size () #12 0x0814c91e in gutter_specs_changed () #13 0x0814cb16 in top_gutter_specs_changed () #14 0x081a516c in recompute_one_cached_specifier_in_window () #15 0x081a52e6 in recompute_cached_specifier_everywhere_mapfun () [...] I think (S)XEmacs must support non-ascii characters in gutters. I can provide effort to fix this, however i have no idea how redisplay works and what is Bufbyte, Emchar, how they relates and so on .. Thanks -- lg