I would like to type the diameter symbol ⌀ and some other special characters in Kubuntu. I tried in Kmail, Korganizer, LibreOffice Writer. The only place that a keystroke combination worked was in this text entry box in Firefox. I found a tutorial on the Compose Key here:
https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/ComposeKey#Current_KDE_Configuration
and I set my compose key to Scroll Lock. But for Unicode entry it turns out the Compose key is not used.
I found the Unicode code for the diameter symbol (2300) here:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html
I found the method of Unicode Composition here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey
Press Shift+Ctrl+U, release U, enter the hexadecimal (0123456789abcdef) Unicode character code point, then release Shift+Ctrl. An underlined u followed by the number will be displayed as you type.
I use English and Thai keyboards.
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– Stefan Krüger s-light Nov 25 '19 at 13:25