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Lars Balker Rasmussen <lbr@mjolner.dk> writes:

> Running `emacs-20.3 -q', `C-x 8 a' inserts what looks like an å, except
> (char-charset (following-char)) on it says ascii.  

Surely this must be a bug.  Report it with `M-x report-emacs-bug'.

> Also, writing a simple test-message with just a couple of å's will have
> Gnus complain about posting an empty message (?).

So it does.  I've now sent a bug report on both these things.

> If I cut'n'paste an å from an xterm, I get the expected latin-iso8859-1
> from (char-charset (following-char)).

So do I.  

> Yes, I have an American keyboard, and will have to jump through hoops to
> get accented chars.  So I'm wondering; what's the REAL way of getting
> iso8859-1 chars under Mule, when iso-insert obviously is broken?

I also have an American keyboard -- a Windows one, even.  I have all
the interesting chars on the Right-Alt keymap.  And who can live
without Hyper and Super modifiers?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen