Hi, I think I am going to solve a weird problem. I never managed to run emacs20 with utf-8 encoded files. Now I know the reason. I am using emacs20 and had the package user-de installed. This contains the file
/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50user-de.el which contains the line (standard-display-european t) This variable is more or less obsolet, removes the mule-menu from emacs20 and prevents emacs from showing unicode-fonts when using the mule-package from Otfried Cheong http://www.cs.uu.nl/~otfried/Mule/ . Who wants to use unicode in emacs should comment out this variable in his .emacs and in 50user-de.el I wrote a bugreport about this. Ciao! juh -- Gegen Grippe ist ein Kraut gewachsen http://www.sudelbuch.de/2000/20000114.html