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Subject: Re: global-set-key  [? =?iso-8859-1?q?=5CM-=F6?=]
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Ole Laursen <olau@hardworking.dk> writes:

> Martin aus Chemnitz <MartinAusChemnitz@gmx.net> writes:
>
>> and tried to bind a function to a German Umlaut key in my .emacs file,
>> but
>>   (global-set-key  [?\M-ö] 'forward-word)
>> did not work. There was no error message, but no binding as well.
>
> I have the same problem with binding C-æ. It was discussed here
> recently - it is probably a bug in Emacs 21.3, Jesper Harder filed a
> bug report AFAIK.

Yup, and it's fixed in CVS now.  So you can either

* downgrade to Emacs 21.2 (where it works)
* build Emacs from CVS
* wait for the next release :-)