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rrthomas/pointless-xcompose

Extra Compose mappings to input an irritatingly large number of Unicode symbols under X.

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Recommended between 2025-09-23 and 2025-09-23. Last pushed 2025-09-26.

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“people who are interested in this should peruse and install < https://github.com/rrthomas/pointless-xcompose > or perhaps”

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Yes, it's a feature of X. The full list is in `/usr/share/X11/locale/*/Compose`, and people who are interested in this should peruse and install < https://github.com/rrthomas/pointless-xcompose > or perhaps < https://github.com/kragen/xcompose >.

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