emacs, tramp & x-ctext

[yavannadil@yahoo.com]

Hello!

After moving from MacOS X to Linux I miss only one application -
Aquamacs.
My system is Ubuntu 6.06 LTS - Dapper Drake, my locale is ru_RU.UTF-8
and my Mule status General Information is
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Version of this emacs:
  GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll
bars)
 of 2006-05-18 on adare, modified by Debian

Configuration options:
  '--build=powerpc-linux-gnu' '--host=powerpc-linux-gnu'
'--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib'
'--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info'
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--with-x=yes'
'--with-x-toolkit=athena' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2'
'build_alias=powerpc-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=powerpc-linux-gnu'

Multibyte characters awareness:
  default: t
  current-buffer: t

Current language environment: UTF-8
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The first problem: when I copy (with mouse) Russian text from Gnome
terminal or OpenOffice and paste it into Emacs, it shows the text in
bolder font than text entered from keyboard and then refuses to save it
as UTF-8, suggesting x-ctext. How do I get rid of this x-ctext?

The second problem: when I open UTF-8 files with tramp, they are shown
as bunch of octets (\201\...) and then get mangled after save. I guess
I need to tell tramp to use UTF-8. How do I do it?

And the last thing: how do I turn on scrolling wheel support?

Thank you for any advice,
Dmitri