On the subject of 8-bit fonts... here is a set of key bindings useful
for inserting accented characters and similar for ISO-8859-1 (which is
the standard encoding for X-windows fonts in countries with the latin
alphabet).  It's really for people without keyboard support for
accented characters, but it does have the advantage that the shell
knows the character is to be literal rather than a command sequence.
This could probably usefully be in StartupFiles or Misc.

I have sent it as an attachment with quoted-printables since it has 8
bit characters in it.  However, it should work anyway since the
bindings themselves use the ASCII equivalents with a \M- in front.

Oh yes... remember the bit in the FAQ about using the meta key.

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