> and resulting in a single X key-symbol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (or, as it's spelled through my .XCompose, shift-altgr 3 3) I think there was a time when compose sequence

> and resulting in a single X key-symbol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (or, as it's spelled through my .XCompose, shift-altgr 3 3) I think there was a time when compose sequences could only emit a single character, at least in some contexts. But as far as i can tell, every text box in every app on my machine supports multi-character sequences.