Re: Environment for Perl6 Unicode

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Gnome Terminal is certainly Unicode-aware. What you probably want to do to make it easier to type characters not on your keyboard is to set up a compose key. That is, you sacrifice one of your keys to be used to compose interesting characters. (Personally I use Caps Lock for this purpose, as I find I never use Caps Lock for typing capitals.)

Once you have a compose key set up, you just hit Compose, then "<", then "<", and you get "«". Or hit Compose, then "a", then "^", and you get "ā". There are all kinds of useful characters you can type with a compose key.

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Re^2: Environment for Perl6 Unicode by daxim (Curate) on Feb 14, 2013 at 10:03 UTC
I'm a big fan of the XCompose feature, too. I find that most instructions how to map the key to e.g. Capslock, while working, are much too complicated - the keyboard applets in the control panels of good desktop environments offer this as a simple setting (screenshot). That list is out of date - instead see `file:///usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose` or http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/tree/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre. See https://github.com/kragen/xcompose how to make user-defined additions.	[reply]

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Re^2: Environment for Perl6 Unicode
by daxim (Curate) on Feb 14, 2013 at 10:03 UTC

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That list is out of date - instead see file:///usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose or http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/tree/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre.

See https://github.com/kragen/xcompose how to make user-defined additions.

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