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Excerpts from internet.other.info-andrew: 30-Dec-92 National characters
in texts Rainer Klute@ucbvax.Berk (642)

> What annoys me is that typing a national character (i. e. a German
> umlaut) in, say, ez crashes the application. Is this regarded as usual
> behavior, could it be due to my unusual installation, or did I miss
> anything in the documentation?

This is certainly not normal behavior.  Which version of Andrew are you
using?  (5.1 is the latest public release)  Check that
$ANDREWDIR/lib/compchar exists and contains the single readable file
comps.    It should start out like below...

# Standard composites file for CompChar, contains mappings for
# most ISO language characters and symbol and symbola font characters.
ag xe0 a\*(l`
aa 225 a\*(l'
a^ 226 a\*(l^
a~ 227 a\*(l~
a: 228 a\*(l:

Unfortunately ATK applications running under X are set up to send most
error messages to the ATK console program, so there may be a message
explaining the failure which isn't being displayed.  To avoid this you
could edit xim.c so that the first statement in xim_Establish console is
"return;"  This way most error messages will appear on stderr, usually
the tty the program started from.

-Rob Ryan
Andrew Consortium