gtk:im-context, gobject:object, common-lisp:standard-object, common-lisp:t

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The gtk:im-context-simple object is a simple input method context supporting table-based input methods. It has a built-in table of compose sequences that is derived from the X11 Compose files.

The gtk:im-context-simple object reads additional compose sequences from the first of the following files that is found: ~/.config/gtk-3.0/Compose, ~/.XCompose, /usr/share/X11/locale/$locale/Compose, for locales that have a nontrivial Compose file. The syntax of these files is described in the Compose(5) manual page.

Unicode characters

The gtk:im-context-simple class also supports numeric entry of Unicode characters by typing the Ctrl-Shift-u key, followed by a hexadecimal Unicode codepoint. For example, Ctrl-Shift-u 1 2 3 Enter yields U+0123 LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH CEDILLA, i.e. ģ.