> The nice thing about ASCII and the QWERTY layout is that it has > all ASCII characters easily available, so you can enter *all* > latin1-subset-of-Unicode characters with just it.
Because all the latin1 symbols begin from a0, that is the smaller value you can generate using a meta key, because 20 first ascii codes are control codes, and you have to generate them using a control combination. Like I said in other mail, this was the original function of meta, and this is the reason latin1 (or iso8859-1) was designed in this way. A funny point is that older keyboard generated all these combinations by hardware, conecting to earth or vcc the lines, so it was very simple design them.
