Cheers, Lawrence In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2008-01-11 on lamacq.ph.ed.ac.uk Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60802000 configured using `configure '--enable-font-backend' '--with-xft' '--prefix=/scratch/s0198183/applications/emacs-unicode' '--with-rsvg' '--with-mmap' '--cache-file' 'foo'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_GB.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default-enable-multibyte-characters: t