(xkb) how to map a key to multiple characters?

[Simos Xenitellis]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Samuel Thibault
<samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> Simos Xenitellis, le Sun 11 Jan 2009 18:52:44 +0000, a écrit :
>> (or, shall these be called  ligature_ch, ligature_CH, etc;)
>
> Err, AIUI, they shouldn't be called ligatures, because ligatures are
> just a better way to render two letter closely, while here ch is
> considered as a letter by itself.

(Assuming we go to the direction of assigning new keysyms), what name
would you suggest?

digraphs and trigraphs?
just digraphs irrespective of number of characters?

Simos