On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 12:23:00PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: > That depemds on your needs and software. For the occasional foreign > character, I like to use X's compose facility. I mapped the compose > key to CAPS LOCK (who needs that, right?), and then I can, for example > do COMPOSE + < + 3 to get ♥, or COMPOSE + , + c to get ç. The nice > thing is that the sequences are somewhat mnemonic, you can extend > them, and they don't contradict what is on your key labels. > > This gets me along for the occasional French text on my German layout > keyboard.
That's what I use as well. The instructions for customizing your XCompose combinations are at <https://wiki.debian.org/XCompose>.
