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Quoth · 12-05-2022, 09:41 AM

The Compose Key doesn't work in the Calibre Editor. I have to open a text editor. But Ctrl C, X and V all work.
I use Compose commonly for – — … ° ′ and ″ (last two are prime and double prime for minutes or feet and seconds or inches (linear measure or fractions of degrees).

On earlier versions it did work in main HTML window, but that also is gone. AFAIK it's never worked in the Find/Search and Replace boxes. The characters work if copy/pasted from any Linux text editor.
I also use AltGr v, b, V and B for “ ” ‘ and ’ and for a while AltGr b or B opened something, but that was fixed by changing short cuts. I think all AltGr combos currently work.
I imagine it's QT because Viber uses QT and Compose key only sometimes works in it. Same on Calibre 5.44

Linux Mint 20.1 and Mate Desktop.
UK Extended Keyboard map.

12-05-2022, 09:41 AM	#1
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,284 Karma: 105299897 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	No Linux Compose key The Compose Key doesn't work in the Calibre Editor. I have to open a text editor. But Ctrl C, X and V all work. I use Compose commonly for – — … ° ′ and ″ (last two are prime and double prime for minutes or feet and seconds or inches (linear measure or fractions of degrees). On earlier versions it did work in main HTML window, but that also is gone. AFAIK it's never worked in the Find/Search and Replace boxes. The characters work if copy/pasted from any Linux text editor. I also use AltGr v, b, V and B for “ ” ‘ and ’ and for a while AltGr b or B opened something, but that was fixed by changing short cuts. I think all AltGr combos currently work. I imagine it's QT because Viber uses QT and Compose key only sometimes works in it. Same on Calibre 5.44 Linux Mint 20.1 and Mate Desktop. UK Extended Keyboard map. Last edited by Quoth; 12-05-2022 at 09:43 AM.