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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:41:41 +0200

> From: Magnar Sveen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 07:13:50 +0100
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> Yes, I've been using
> 
>     (define-key key-translation-map (kbd "s-8") (kbd "["))
> 
> It works in most cases. But unfortunately read-char does not care about
> this translation, leaving lots of functions broken.

Why do you care about read-char?  What functions are broken after the
above?  And why do you use key-translation-map and not global-map (or
global-set-key)?