Hi, Indic text is not rendered correctly in emacs shell (M-x shell). Attached images show indic text displayed as escaped unicode values. output of ls (when file names has indic characters) and cat (when content of a file has indic characters) is displayed like that. - Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign