From: "(rkumar) Sentinel" <sentinel.2001@...>
Date: 2009-10-04T16:28:25+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9: handling meta and control keys

(rkumar) Sentinel wrote:
> 1.8 used to return an int for say ?\M-a or ?C-a (when user types meta-a
> or control-a).
> 
> 1.9 returns a string as "\xE1" instead of 225.
> 

After further searching on :
http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/what_is_a_character_encoding

I found this:

    ?\M-a.getbyte(0)

It works, however any suggestions on how i can write this so it works 
for both 1.8 and 1.9 would be welcome.
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