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> What annoys me is that typing a national character (i. e. a German
> umlaut) in, say, ez
> crashes the application.

I think this is the same problem that I encountered and fixed when I was
working on an ISO keyboard in Sweden this summer (a DECstation, in that
case). It occurs when you have a keyboard that sends 8-bit characters
directly to the application, as opposed to your having mapped a
key-sequence of 7-bit characters to self-insert an 8-bit character.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but in this case the compchar package has
nothing to do with it.

I went into the following files, and changed some "char" declarations to
"unsigned char" and the problem was solved. I don't have the details
handy, but the places to do it are pretty obvious. I would think you
need to hit the SelfInsert routines in the txt*.c files at the very
least. This may be overkill, but I made that change in these files:

bind.c
bind.ch
keymap.c
keymap.ch
txtcmds.c
txtvcmod.c

This was in ATK 5.0. I can dig up the files if anyone wants to diff them
against newer versions.

Stephan Greene
University of Maryland