Control key combinations in Keyboard Shortcuts

I want to use the Control key plus letters, such as Ctrl-H, for shortcuts within Keyboard Shortcuts. I appreciate that such combinations are normally used by EMACS but I fail to understand what's happening in the Keyboard Shortcuts section of my Keyboard panel in System Prferences. It allows me to enter the Control key plus letter as my required shortcut but the shortcut never works. Any other shortcut, using other modifiers, even in combination with the Control key works fine. Now I have other utilities, such as FastScripts and Spark that allow me to use such combinations, so why can't they be used in Keyboard Shortcuts?
If anyone else has this problem and knows of an answer it would be much appreciated!

Well, the Keyboard Shortcuts panel doesn’t show the warning triangle as shown for other conflicts. Shouldn't the panel reject such key combinations if they're not available? Instead it shows them as being OK. I would have thought it reasonable to use such key combinations in non-EMACS applications anyway. Also, why is it that other utilities make it possible to use them? Most odd. I'll just have to use other methods I suppose!

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