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> special characters that I can't write using my EN_US keyboard

I set the "menu" key on my en_gb_dvorak keyboard to be compose. I use it most days, whether to type the Ö in a colleague's name, € on a budget, ² in m², → anywhere, or • (or even ①) in a plain text document.

The file /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose contains many definitions, but they don't all work, and it lacks π. I'm not sure where mine are read from.

Whoever wrote it had a sense of humour.

  <Multi_key> <L> <L> <A> <P>             : ""  U1F596 # RAISED HAND WITH PART BETWEEN MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS
Edit: It seems HN won't display the character: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f596/index.htm


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