D‑Compose

A cross-platform Compose key for any keyboard layout.

There’s nothing to see yet.

Idea

• grab Compose key sequences from XOrg
• extend them with ASCII-only sequences
• (maybe?) make a quick Rust/Tauri UI to browse, filter, and customize these sequences.

The implementation could rely on:

• AHK on Windows (deadkey-chaining is hacky at best on this platform)
• ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict on macOS
• XCompose on Linux (no shit, Sherlock?)

… unless we hit the rusty road and come up with our own implementation.

Links

• https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/libX11/i18n/compose/en_US.UTF-8.html
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/plain/nls/en_US.UTF-8/Compose.pre

Windows

• https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose
• https://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/92511-wincompose-a-robust-compose-key-for-windows/
• https://github.com/jmcwilliams403/XComposeAHKv2
• https://github.com/DreymaR/BigBagKbdTrixPKL/blob/master/Files/_eD_Compose.ini

macOS

• https://pypi.org/project/gen-compose/
• https://github.com/Granitosaurus/macos-compose
• https://github.com/rastislavcore/osx-compose-key

Linux

• https://wiki.debian.org/XCompose
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GtkComposeTable