ronggui wrote: > You are right.It's not a problem of ESS but emacs. > > After I start ESS,I set-buffer-process-coding-system to > cn-gb-2312,everything goes well. > > Then may I ask how to set this variable so that I need not set it > every time by hand. > > emacs 21.3 > ess 5.3.0 > > Thanks. I guess you could try adding that to ess-site.el Rodney