jareth(a)camelot-soft.com (P. E. Jareth Hein) writes: It buys us not infesting yet another function with a CODING-SYSTEM argument. I am not for removing the internal decision logic, but for finding a solution that won't require adding a CODING-SYSTEM argument to any function that does anything exportable to buffer text. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- Thou Who might be our Father Who perhaps may be in Heaven... -- Roger Zelazny