Yoshiki Hayashi <g740685(a)komaba.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp&gt; writes: Then this is a bug in XEmacs. Although set-terminal-coding-system is very broken by concept under XEmacs (who says the coding system is the same on all TTY devices), it should never ever be needed to use the window-system variable under XEmacs. Jan P.S. Does this patch help Index: coding.el =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs-20/lisp/coding.el,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.2 coding.el --- coding.el 1998/02/28 21:34:56 1.2 +++ coding.el 1999/05/21 16:22:06 ＠＠ -115,7 +115,9 ＠＠ (interactive "zterminal-coding-system: ") (get-coding-system coding-system) ; correctness check (setq terminal-coding-system coding-system) - (set-console-tty-coding-system (device-console) terminal-coding-system) + ; ### should this affect all current tty consoles ? + (if (eq (device-type) 'tty) + (set-console-tty-coding-system (device-console) terminal-coding-system)) (redraw-modeline t)) (defun set-pathname-coding-system (coding-system)