Nick> How to make XEmacs use koi8-r fonts instead of iso8859-5 fonts? It seems that I should be more prescise ;)) The observations are that XEmacs-MULE uses iso8859-5 fonts to display cyrillics. As I get it, XEmacs encodes buffer with cyrillic stuff into ISO8859-5 character set and then display it using iso8859-5 fonts. Right? If this reasoning is right, then let's name ISO8859-5 be "basic cyrillic encoding". Then the question is: is it possible to make KOI8-R to be "basic cyrillic encoding" in MULE XEmacs? Ok, now I see the problem -- KOI-8 does not have some characters that one can find in oher cyrillic languages (like Ukranian). May be it is possible to make KOI*-R to be another cyrillic charset, to be independent from iso8859? SJT> Build without Mule, use koi8-r file and process encodings, and set the SJT> font to koi8-r using X resources or command line arguments. Ok, but the question is for MULE XEmacs. Nick> And many people complain that they have to install 8859-5 fonts for Nick> XEmacs solely while all other apps do well with koi8. SJT> If you have an example of a multilingual app that works with koi8-r, I'd SJT> like to know about it. KDE2(qt-2.2.1) and KDE2 apps. XEmacs-MULE does understand koi8, but it needs iso8859-5 fonts to display it. This is inconvenient. SJT> Does GNU Emacs do it correctly? If so, it should be possible to port. SJT> Are there any tricks involved (eg, like using unibyte buffers)? Yes, GNU Emacs uses koi8-r fonts to display russian text. For more details need some hackung :)) Nick> Is there easy and straightforward way to use koi8-r fonts in Mule Nick> xemacs? SJT> Only if you are willing to limit yourself to 8859-5 portions of the KOI8 SJT> character set. The problem is that XEmacs basically assumes that KOI8 SJT> is a remapping of ISO Cyrillic, and translates other characters to a SJT> dummy replacement. In that case it should be possible to derive a font SJT> mapping CCL program from the code for KOI8 file encoding. SJT> Another possibility would be to create a KOI8-R charset (XEmacs SJT> currently doesn't have one), and install it in private space. Like the SJT> "no Mule" solution, this would require that you use KOI8-R file SJT> encodings; you would not be able to easily save those buffers in SJT> ISO-8559-5. You would also find it difficult to save multilingual files SJT> mixing KOI8 with any other character set (except ASCII, of course). SJT> I would guess that would be acceptable (probably everybody already uses SJT> KOI8 in their files); is it? Well, most russian texts/files use three encodings: koi8-r, windows-1251, alternativnaya(rare). Nobody uses iso8859-5 to write in russian. SJT> Can you tell me where I could get free KOI8 fonts? The only one I have SJT> is -etl-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-koi8-1 from the GNU SJT> intlfonts collection. http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2/... SJT> Also, how are the KOI8-R fonts specified under X and Windows? (I can't SJT> do much about the latter, I don't know anything about Windows, but I can SJT> at least document it for when somebody who does Windows wants to work on SJT> it.) Don't understand your question :( SJT> It's going to be a while before I can work much on this, but let me know SJT> about the GNU Emacs, what registry(s) are used for KOI8-R in X11, and SJT> whether saving files in KOI8-R is acceptable. Ok. SJT> I may have more questions to make things more robust and allow SJT> multilingual use, but answers to these should be enough to allow Mule to SJT> work with pure KOI8-R files and display them on screen. Nick.