I entered Emacs version 21.1 with the -q option over a simple telnet. I then evaluate (in succession): (setq junk '(("Ê" . "\\^{E}") ("Ë" . "\\\"{E}"))) --> (("Ê" . "\\^{E}") ("Ë" . "\\\"{E}")) What do you do to enter the character that appears here as Ê? Likewise for Ë? And how did you enter the \201? Or did you? I wonder if the internal Emacs multibyte representation is somehow leaking out. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel