Esperanto uses the letter Ŭ. Compose, Shift+9, a = ă, but Compose, Shift+9, u = u.
How do I type this with the compose key? If that is not possible, what is the next easiest way to type it?
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See this question and its answers on [esperanto.se]: https://esperanto.stackexchange.com/q/378/7 – Sir Cornflakes Sep 29 '22 at 16:11
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Note that their solution of compse, shift + 9, u does not work on my keyboard. However, compose, u, u does. – charmoniumQ Sep 29 '22 at 17:15
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Depends on the version of X11 (assuming you are not using or wayland) and keyboard layout, but generally Compose, b, u or Compose, u, u should work (IIRC Compose, ( was used for breve some (long) time ago).
See also /usr/share/X11/locale/*/Compose.
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1@marcelm thanks, edited (and I meant
uUanyway as the latter option) – Radovan Garabík Sep 29 '22 at 16:21 -
I didn't realize I was only looking at an abbreviated table until now. Here is a complete list of compose keys in xlib: https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libX11/i18n/compose/en_US.UTF-8.html – charmoniumQ Sep 29 '22 at 17:14
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Ŭ or ŭ is a letter in the Esperanto alphabet, based on u with breve.
Press the Ctrl+Shift+u keyboard combination which will print a u character on the screen. Then after the u type one of the 4-digit hexadecimal codes in the second column and press Enter to render the u+4-digit hexadecimal number that appears on the screen as the appropriate u with breve character.
| Character | Hex | HTML Entity |
|---|---|---|
| Ŭ | 016c | Ŭ |
| ŭ | 016d | ŭ |
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