>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Josefsson writes: Simon> For me, when I yanked the string into emacs from galeon it Simon> becomes double-width. It is single-width in galeon though. I also see that; any pasting of cyrillic text via pasting X's primary or from the clipboard. The wide cyrillic is from the japanese-jisx0208 charset. Eg, Cyrillic т gets buffer code 0x92 0xA7 0xE4 when pasted, but 0x8C 0xE2 and charset cyrillic-iso8859-5 when typed directly, or inserted from a utf-8 encoded file. In both cases, (describe-char) shows the same value one the Unicode: line, eg 0442 for т. The next line is typed directly: тхис ис а тест This line is pasted: (this probably won't be visible after I send) The first issue is to get emacs to prefer 8859-5 over jisx0208 when pasting cyrillic utf8. The next is getting the cyrillic in jisx0208 to properly convert to utf8. I'm using GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2003-03-06 in en_US.UTF-8. -JimC