On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 12:43:33AM -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> Perhaps some readers may not know what the compose key is good for.
> Using compose plus
> two other key-strokes, will get you just about all the diacritical
> marks used in most European languages,
> common fractions, currency symbols, degree signs and other things I
> can't think of. And they're all
> simple to do, without trying to memorize obscure codes. For
> instance, Spanish: ¿ ¡ señor, tío: German: Straße,
> Fräulein; French: hôtel, françoise; épinards; Italian: è;  ½, ¾ 75°:
> €30, £40, 50¥, 10¢. Just combine the letter
> with a symbol, or in some cases, just type the letter twice, and voilà!


Plus, you can put your own in ~/.XCompose:

<Multi_key> <less> <3>                  : "❤️"   U2764  # red emoji heart
<Multi_key> <m> <m>                     : "𝔪"   U1D4C2 # mathematical script 
small m



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