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Re: Using .XCompose



On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 05:34:59AM +0000, Ajith R wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to Linux and Debian.I am trying to build a custom layout for my mother tongue Malayalam (India, Kerala).
> The problem I am trying to tackle:
> One of the Malayalam letters, ങ (U+0D19), is used much more commonly in its geminate form which is composed of three unicode charcters ങ ് ങ (U+0D19 U+0D4D U+0D19)  which will yield the geminate form ങ്ങ So, when I type, I want the ങ to be replaced with ങ്ങ.The keyboard layout is working fine as far as I can see. It does yield the correct letters. What doesn't seem to work is the .XCompose mechanism. Please tell me what I am missing.

I have a little experience only with X layout files and not the compose mechanism.  When you solve this, please post your solution here :)


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