Input of ISO-8859-1 chars Was: No x-faces with emacs 22.0 on XPpro

[Rud1ger Sch1erz <nospam_tigre@yahoo.es>]

bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> Rud1ger Sch1erz <nospam_tigre@yahoo.es> writes:
>
> [...] ``iso-accents-mode'' seems not to exist no more in
>
> iso-acc.el has been moved to the lisp/obsolete/ directory (and is not
> autoloaded, apparently).
>
>     ** iso-acc.el is now obsolete. Use one of the latin input methods
>        instead.

I fiddled around with iso-cvt.el, but anyway I can't figure out the
new concept.

With iso-accents-mode enabled, I could just type `"a' and it was
substituted with `ä' on the fly. That was very convenient, using a
keyboard with English layout to input German characters. 

I can't find something similar in the new functions. `iso-german` just
converts a whole region, but I cant find on-the-fly conversions.

Am I'm missing something? 

In the header of iso-cvt.el there is a reference to the ISO 8859-1
FAQ, but I was not able to pull it from the given ftp address:
ftp.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (unknown host)

Cheers,
Rudiger