Subject: bug#13599: 24.2; (max-char) is too low (and hard to change)

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:20:23 +0200

> From: Magnar Sveen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:44:58 +0100
> 
>     (keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\[)
> 
> which did work, while
> 
>     (keyboard-translate ?\C-8 ?\[)
> 
> did not. Not a character again. So it's not only super.

keyboard-translate doesn't support keys with modifiers.  Use
global-set-key instead, after defining a function that inserts the [
character.