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by twic 680 days ago
> 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.