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From: om@iki.fi (Otto J. Makela)
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Subject: Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 17:05:07 +0300
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:04:46 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> There is no "Compose" key on the keyboard I'm using to type this.
>
> Remember, you can assign your own keys on *nix GUIs.
>
> I use Caps Lock for this purpose.

I've repurposed the bottom row "menu" key on my keyboard,
since the Mate window manager I use really doesn't require it.

>> People who use non-English languages typically have keyboards with
>> accented letters and so forth.
>
> As I have mentioned before, the idea that only “non-English languages”
> needs such symbols demonstrates a certain ... naïveté.

I like using compose - > to produce "→" and compose . . for "…"
even when I'm writing English.

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