Translations:Tutorials/ComposeKey/3/en

The compose key is used to enter characters on the keyboard that are usually not available on the key caps. Such letters could be an "umlaut", a "macron" or accents on letters:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut_(diacritic)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macron_(diacritic)