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I'm making the bold assumption, that most people here are not running, in either local body or national elections.

Everyone loves the complain about what "public servants" do. So why not step up and do something about it?

No accusation intended or implied. Just curious.

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[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

right-alt as the alternative character key must be the default as I had it too, but at least replying here (in Zen) it doesn't seem to do anything. So I added another input source to have English & Maori, but still doesn't seem to do anything, nor does toggling the compose key.

I guess there's a chance Zen just doesn't respect those settings / implement them.

[–] Dave 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I tested in Zen and it works fine for me 🤷

I don't have English as an input, only Māori. It doesn't prevent you using letters not in Māori, in fact it seems to work the same as English but allow the macrons. I noticed the same thing in Windows as well.

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah! That's what it was, as soon as I took English out, I can right-alt and do the ā.

[–] Dave 1 points 2 days ago

Too easy! I suspect it can't use more than one input source at once, and you're supposed to switch between them using the Super+Space combo. So it was probably still set to English.