First sentence should read: I discovered quite by chance (from http://en.wikipedia.org/Esszet) that I could generate an ß in Gnome 2.14 and earlier using control-shift-df (it changes to something else in 2.15 apparently).
-- Shortcuts for non-keyboard characters in Gnome, as well as compose-key combinations, are undocumented https://launchpad.net/bugs/66047 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
