Brian Utterback <[email protected]> writes: > On> However, it begs the question of why somebody thought that printing > "M-" before characters with the high order bit turned on would be a > good idea.
Because ASCII is 7 bits and it is conventional to encode (in 8 bits) Meta as a modifier by setting the high bit. Hyper and Super were not so lucky as to be assigned a bit. http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_hyper_super_keys.html
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