view-lossage displays umlauts incorrectly

[Ulrich Neumerkel]

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In GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
 of Tue Dec 12 2000 on p0.complang.tuwien.ac.at
configured using `configure  -prefix /usr'

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

While simple umlauts are displayed correctly with C-h l, the keystroke
"C-ä" is shown as "\204" as seen below.  I tried it in various
configurations (multibyte, unibyte etc) without better results.
The underlying function (recent-keys) has the same problem.

Recent input:
ä „ menu-bar help-menu report-emacs-bug

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