<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello.<DIV>We are currently developing multilingual ontologies for a European project called Terregov. The multilingual aspect of the project require a UTF-8 encoding. The CLISP environment can be set easily, however, when exchanging Polish strings with Tk, some characters trigger a hang up on the connection. In particular the "o" with acute accent seems to be one of the culprit.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I assume that some of the UTF-8 codes are interpreted as control chars in the command string when sending or receiving strings between the Lisp and Tk environments.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Is there an easy way out of this problem? </DIV><DIV>Thank you.</DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Prof. Jean-Paul Barthès</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">UMR CNRS HEUDIASYC</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">CS Department</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Université de Technologie de Compiègne</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">60205 Compiègne Cedex, France</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Tel +33 3 44 23 44 66</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Fax +33 3 44 23 44 77</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">www.utc.fr/~barthes</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>