Re: Can one define global-set-key to override mode-based keymap?

[rgb]

> Hmmm, maybe you could bind `C-n' etc. to some other character not likely
> to be bound to a command (e.g. an ISO-8859/Unicode C1 control character
> or a Unicode private use character) via keyboard-translate, then bind
> the key sequence (vector) of that unused character to `other-window'.

I've wanted to do this but can't figure out how.  Perhaps it's not
possible?   I want to use keyboard-translate on named events such as
<down> <apps> <end> etc.
Can this be done?
If so, I must be using the wrong syntax.  Could you give an example?