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Re: Bug#777643: general: possibly, some keyboard layouts should use U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR instead of U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT



On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 07:50:56AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > 
> > I'm curious, how do you type that in conviently?
> 
> Just to give an additional option which no one else seems to have used:
> 
> If you map a key to Multi_key, and have ~/.XCompose (or your system-wide
> compose file) suitably filled out, you can type Multi_key . . . to
> generate ….
> 
> <Multi_key> <period> <period> <period>  : "…"   U2026           # HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS

That's a bad idea as another default combination is a prefix of that:
<Multi_key> <period> <period> which gets you... "…" (U+2026).

> The advantage of using XCompose is that many of the keybindings actually
> make some sort of logical sense, like multi+<+3 makes ♥.

Especially, letters with decoration form a matrix:
^ â Â ê Ê ô Ô î Î
' á Á é É ó Ó í Í
" ä Ä ë Ë ö Ö ï Ï
, ą Ą ę Ę     į Į
and so on.

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