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