>>> The question is why aspell thinks the encoding is "nil".
Ah, indeed. Would the following have set it so: (setq default-buffer-file-coding-system 'no-conversion) What would be the best (i.e., least intrusive) setting to use here? Cheers, Gustav Meglicki Indiana University -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple