Hallo, Just had to fiddle around quite a bit to get spell checking to work cleanly with german umlauts. I run the latest xemacs mercurial on ubuntu karmic with "Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6), ispell.el 3.6 - 01/07/2003". The following turned out to work: (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8) (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) (setq ispell-local-dictionary "myldeutsch8") (custom-set-variables '(ispell-program-name "aspell") '(ispell-local-dictionary-alist '(("myldeutsch8" "[a-zA-ZÄÖÜäößü]" "[^a-zA-ZÄÖÜäößü]" "[']" t ("--encoding=utf-8" "-C" "-d" "deutsch") "~latin1" utf-8)) ) ) Maybe, the faq or the documentation in ispell.el could be amended. -- thomas _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta