Hey, If I start Emacs on an x-terminal-emulator (in my case gnome-terminal) I cannot input my brazilian 8bit chars. If I type "~a", which should generate "ã" the screen will simply blink; If I type "'a", which should generate "á" the 'Shell command:' prompt will appear at the minibuffer. My keyboard is a pc105, us_intl keyboard, FWIW. If run in 'X mode' or under the Linux console it will work. If it runs on gnome-terminal with TERM=linux it will work but the UTF-8 (I'm using this encoding) will be input uninterpreted, so inputing "áç" will generate "áç". This bug was reported to Debian some time ago; you may be interested in taking a look at it: http://bugs.debian.org/143058 Thanks, -- kov@debian.org: Gustavo Noronha Debian: *