[Bug 66047] Shortcuts for non-keyboard characters in Gnome, as well as compose-key combinations, are undocumented

[Robert Persson]

Public bug reported:

I discovered quite by chance (from http://en.wikipedia.org/Esszet) that
I could generate an ß in Gnome 2.14 and earlier using control-shift-df
(it changes to something else in 2.15 apparently). However I can find
nothing in the gnome documentation about this, or about all the other
characters I assume I could generate if I only knew how.

This feature should not only be documented in the help system, it should
also be introduced to new users in tutorials. Perhaps it could, in
addition, be mentioned in the documentation for the character pallette
and/or for the keyboard preferences.

The same should apply to the equally obscure xorg compose key. I myself
actually did find out a short while ago what the compose key did, but I
didn't know, until reading that wikipedia article, that compose-ss would
give me an ß. What I have managed to learn about compose key
combinations has been mainly through guesswork. There are still many
characters I would like to use that I haven't yet guessed. You shouldn't
need to use guesswork to unearth important features of your desktop
environment.

** Affects: gucharmap (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

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Shortcuts for non-keyboard characters in Gnome, as well as compose-key combinations, are undocumented
https://beta.launchpad.net/bugs/66047