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Compose key
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2021–2026), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with Compose key, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Compose-key sequences are hard to recall and feel slow and clunky2026-04-16
- Custom compose sequences are a huge pain to write and install, so user gives up2024-10-29
- Can't work out how to enter a character that needs combining keystrokes2023-08-15
- Compose key behaves inconsistently across apps and sometimes doesn't work at all2023-05-26
- Web apps break native controls, shortcuts, copy-paste, screen readers and dev tools2021-05-05