On Linux I input special characters using the Compose key. Works everywhere, not...

gylterud · on June 22, 2023

Came here to mention this exactly. I have a quick intro to the compose key on my website [0] and an intro for how to use Unicode with Latex[1], and there are other resources around the web if you are looking. The idea of a compose key for Unicode originated in Plan 9, as far as I know.

[0]: https://hakon.gylterud.net/tutorials/unicode.html

[1]: https://hakon.gylterud.net/tutorials/latex-maths-unicode.htm...

pxc · on June 22, 2023

I do this, too.

I haven't yet found a solution that works very well for macOS— a few years ago, some mappings were not possible with the solutions I found.

goerz · on June 23, 2023

I got you covered: https://michaelgoerz.net/notes/the-us-international-scientif...

fragmede · on June 22, 2023

control-command spacebar brings up the emoji picker, and some of the symbols are in there, but like you said, not everything.

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pxc · on June 23, 2023

I do really like modern emoji pickers in general. Compose keys are nice, but I love fuzzy filter interfaces that search as you type. Compared to compose sequences, they let you get up to a reasonable speed very quickly.

cryptonector · on June 22, 2023

Windows really needs X11 compose key sequences. Yes, I use Linux, but also Windows.

Chris_Newton · on June 22, 2023

I’ve previously used a nice little tool called WinCompose for exactly that. Looks like it’s still going:

http://wincompose.info/

pxc · on June 22, 2023

WinCompose offers this. I find it slightly buggy with caps as compose, but it works well enough and it can read an XCompose config file. (It does not honor XCompose includes IIRC, you have to merge everything into one file.)

https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose