Hi. My current configuration is Windoze/Emacs-21.3/Clisp-2.35 native (not the cygwin port, which is much slower) and it seems that a recent fix in swank-clisp.lisp in function find-encoding is not "portable". In fact, it is compatible with Clisp-2.35-Unix-flavor (MacOSX and Cygwin included) but not with the native W32 version which lacks some encodings (only 85 vs 121 for the unix version, to be accurate). I include a patch that solves the problem for me (by not using the inexistant symbol directly) ant should also work for those using the japanese encoding on Clisp versions supporting it. Laurent. --- swank-clisp.lisp.bak 2005-09-14 09:16:12.523260100 +0200 +++ swank-clisp.lisp 2005-09-14 09:19:14.141146000 +0200 @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ :line-terminator :unix)) (:utf-8-unix (ext:make-encoding :charset 'charset:utf-8 :line-terminator :unix)) - (:euc-jp-unix (ext:make-encoding :charset 'charset:euc-jp + (:euc-jp-unix (ext:make-encoding :charset (find-symbol "EUC-JP" :charset) :line-terminator :unix)))) (defimplementation accept-connection (socket