On Jan 18, 2009, at 1:03 AM, Lyes Amazouz wrote:

> I will see in that way. But I want to know something more, what is  
> exactly the role of the KCode Variable?

I answer that specific question in this blog post:

http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/the_kcode_variable_and_jcode_library

If you want more general character encoding information, you may wish  
to start reading from the beginning of that series:

http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/understanding_m17n

Hope that helps.

James Edward Gray II