>>>"MB" == Martin Buchholz schrieb am Wed, 24 Jun
1998 16:18:18 -0700 (PDT): 
 MB> there is no choice but to use mule.  You are correct that
 MB> non-mule XEmacs should do a better job of supporting Latin-1
 MB> properly.  That will require a major code reorg that won't happen
 MB> till 21.1 at the earliest.  In the meantime, you could always put
 MB> Multi_key on a key of its own using xmodmap.  Then x-compose.el
 MB> should work properly.
 MB> Or simply,
 MB> (define-key function-key-map 
 MB>     [your key sequence here]
 MB>    'compose-map)
 MB> should also work.
If this is so, this should definitely go into the FAQ, so I can at
least pin-point these dumb german linux users to it ;-) I will contact 
the german linux-FAQ maintainer, that this will be added.
Holger