I have further information: Typing in vim the compose key works, but not in bash. I can thus type ëê etc in vim, but not in bash.
Any ideas on how to solve it? Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14: 2,3