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by keybored 683 days ago
> If so, this wouldn't work for all these emojis that are represented by grapheme clusters, ZWJ-sequences or are just "qualified". The result of a compose sequence is limited to a single "key symbol", which can only encode a single unicode codepoint.

I use the compose key as an abbreviation expander among other things. So far this works fine in all applications.

Though I don’t know if we’re talking about something beyond typing the XCompose sequence on the keyboard. If we’re talking about sending programmatic keypresses to applications like in this submission then I don’t know.