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"Vols" <volunteers@gmail.com> writes:

> I want the keyboard binding 'Control  ;' , for example, I tried:
> (global-set-key  "\C-;" 'kill-this-buffe)

You must avoid the string syntax when binding non-ASCII characters.
(kbd "C-;") and [(control \;)] should work.