FYI: You can use Mule-UCS package for both XEmacs with MULE and FSF Emacs 20.7/21. It is available from: :::The primary distribution::: ftp://ftp.m17n.org/pub/mule/Mule-UCS/Mule-UCS-0.84.tar.gz :::Unofficial XEmacs package (made by me)::: ftp://ftp.jpl.org/xemacs/packages/Mule-UCS-0.84-pkg.tar.gz I am using the following codes in my XEmacs startup file. (require 'un-define) (coding-system-put 'utf-8 'category 'utf-8) (set-coding-category-system 'utf-8 'utf-8) (set-coding-priority-list (cons 'utf-8 (delq 'utf-8 (coding-priority-list)))) -- Katsumi Yamaoka