C-x 8 s s -> ess-tsett

[Tom Roche]

I'm using GNU Emacs 20.7.1 on both w2k and rhl7.1. When I do

C-x 8 ' e

I get

é

and I approve. But when I do

C-x 8 s s

I get

s

instead of

ß

So I dig into the docs and discover

> iso-transl-ss is a keyboard macro in `iso-transl'.

which does what I want ... except the keymapping isn't working (at
least, not the one I want). So I try doing

; (global-unset-key "\C-x 8 s s") ; fails
(global-unset-key [?\C-x 8 s s])
(define-key global-map [?\C-x 8 s s] 'iso-transl-ss)

But when I do

C-x 8 s s

I still get

s

What am I doing wrong? I'm thinking this has something to do with
prefix keys, or maybe macros vs functions, but I'm unsure.

Your assistance is appreciated, Tom_Roche@ncsu.edu