Darren Salt
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The intended use is as a select (dpad centre) button..
However, there is another use – if you long-press it, it works as a
Compose key, e.g. followed by ‘.’ ‘.’ gives ‘…’ (ellipsis, rather than
three full stops), or ‘t’ ‘m’ for ‘™’. You can use it to add accents
to letters too, e.g. ‘e’ apostrophe for ‘é’, although that one's
probably better done by long-pressing ‘e‘.
(There are plenty more such sequences; they're all documented in the
source code but probably should be externally documented too.)
I have a branch which allows entry of arbitrary Unicode code points
(Compose, Escape, hex digits, Space/Return). It's occasionally useful…