Ar an seachtú lá is fiche de mí Márta, scríobh Hrvoje Nikšić: It’s not, don’t worry. What Unicode support exists in 21.5 is cross-platform, but it’s also incomplete, in that it trashes data if Unicode codepoints are encountered that don’t have mappings to the extant Mule character sets. VM always has. Gnus signalled an error. I didn’t understand that paragraph _at all_, in Stephen’s mail, so I would welcome a clarification, too. And, no, we don’t have ISO 8859 coding systems that avoid falling back to ISO 2022 escape sequences when they encounter characters they can’t encode. The FSF have implemented them, and they should be reasonably portable, should you be short of things to do. The corruption he’s referring to is that you see, for example, when you do (encode-coding-string (make-char 'greek-iso8859-7 34) 'iso-8859-1) --any character that’s not understood by the coding system being used maps to tilde, which loses data. What happens when you do (encode-coding-string (make-char 'greek-iso8859-7 34) 'iso-8859-2) is _slightly_ preferable to that, though not very. -- “I, for instance, am gung-ho about open source because my family is being held hostage in Rob Malda’s basement. But who fact-checks me, or Enderle, when we say something in public? No-one!” -- Danny O’Brien