Re: umlauts (8bit characters) input

Reiner Steib wrote:
> Emacs does initialize the setting from the locale.  Initialization of
> `keyboard-coding-system' works correctly in the X version without any
> other settings.  I'm not sure why `set-keyboard-coding-system' is
> required in Emacs 21.3 when using the no-window mode (I assume you use
> 21.3; you didn't mention your Emacs version).

Yes, I use 21.3, I also found the cause for it, see my answer to David.

HS