(xkb) how to map a key to multiple characters?

[Samuel Thibault]

Simos Xenitellis, le Sun 11 Jan 2009 21:36:10 +0000, a écrit :
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Samuel Thibault
> <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> > Simos Xenitellis, le Sun 11 Jan 2009 18:52:44 +0000, a écrit :
> >> (or, shall these be called  ligature_ch, ligature_CH, etc;)
> >
> > Err, AIUI, they shouldn't be called ligatures, because ligatures are
> > just a better way to render two letter closely, while here ch is
> > considered as a letter by itself.
> 
> (Assuming we go to the direction of assigning new keysyms), what name
> would you suggest?
> 
> digraphs and trigraphs?

It sound right yes (that's how unicode seems to call them).

> just digraphs irrespective of number of characters?

That could be multigraphs in general.

Samuel