Questions about multibyte input with zsh

[Jordan Breeding <jordan.breeding@mac.com>]

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Hello,

I mainly use Mac OS X, and on that OS I can usually do a key combo  
like option/alt-i, then o, there are others but that is an easy one.

With that system I can easily input most key combos.

With that in mind here is the current state of my shells:

zsh 4.2.x: I can input the characters directly using the methods  
above, but the multibyte support (at least in the default shell on OS  
X) aren't as good so stuff like going back through history or deleting  
a character on the current command line doesn't work as well

zsh 4.3.x: multibyte support is much improved in general, but I can't  
seem to get the OS X native input method to work, I can only use  
insert-composed-character, this at least works but seems to take me  
longer since I am not used to it

bash 3.1: input using the OS X method works and so does editing the  
history and the current command line

I like zsh more than bash and while having better multibyte support in  
4.3 is nice, but it would be even better if I could still use the OS X  
input method for composed characters.  Is this possible?  If not might  
it be possible in a future 4.3.x version, or in 4.4?

Jordan

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