James LewisMoss <jimdres(a)mindspring.com&gt; writes: > This is a bug reported by a Debian user. Any ideas what's wrong? My guess would be... > This initialization error calls perror(), a macro which expands to > message(). Then xemacs hangs in the bytecount_to_charcount() function > after some function calls. ... that this function is called with the latin1 string Succès, .. > > #0 0x8100ef4 in bytecount_to_charcount (ptr=0x4054381f "Succès", len=6) > at insdel.c:364 .. but expects the string to be in internal mule encoding. I am not sure there is an easy fix here, apart from defining perror as empty or fprintf(stderr,..) which would probably be a good idea anyway. Jan P.S. Is Sylvain running in an locale with French "error" messages?