Why UTF-8/16 character encodings?

[Torje Digernes]

On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 21:46:38 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:25:09PM +0200, Kiith-Sa wrote:
>> You mean like 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard
>> ?
>
> Whoa! That is exactly what I had in mind!!
>
> Pity they don't appear to support Linux, though. :-(
>
>
> T

If you want to configure your keyboard so you can type unicode in 
Linux you should make yourself familiar with xkb, it is not that 
difficult to work with, but not exactly user friendly either, 
super user friendly though.