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A key recognized by [X] that you can use to enter a whole range of [Unicode] characters with mnemonic key sequences. For example, compose-singlequote-e to enter an “é” (e-acute) character. By default this function is not assigned to any key. You can tell the X server what key to use for this function with a command of the form <tt>setxkbmap -option compose:</tt>''keyname'' for example <tt>setxkbmap -option compose:caps</tt> to assign it to the caps-lock key. (Do you use caps-lock for anything else? I don’t.) GUI environments like [GNOME] and [KDE] probably provide some way you can configure this automatically every time you login. The key sequences you can use depend on your [locale|LocaleName], and are defined in the file <tt>/usr/share/X11/locale/</tt>''localename''<tt>/Compose</tt> To get the largest choice of characters, make sure you select a [UTF-8]-encoded locale.
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