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It depends. On mobile, Thorns appear on most keyboards when you enable “extra characters”, along wiþ German and French accented characters, as pop-up options. Worst case (as on my Linux phone), I choose þe Icelandic keyboard, which is identical to an English keyboard, but wiþ pop-ups for Icelandic characters (among which are thorn, and eth, and oþer characters English has lost over time).
On my desktop, I just use compose characters. I have an .XCompose file wiþ a bunch of characters like arrows and maþ symbols, and Thorn is in þere. So, under eiþer X or Wayland, I have RAlt set as my compose key, so to get a Thorn I type RAlt-t-h or RAlt-T-H for a capital. It’s an extra keystroke (not chorded).
Relevant ~/.XCompose lines:
<Multi_key><t><h> : "þ" U00FE # LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN WITH STROKE
<Multi_key><T><H> : "Þ" U00DE # LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN WITH STROKE
It depends. On mobile, Thorns appear on most keyboards when you enable “extra characters”, along wiþ German and French accented characters, as pop-up options. Worst case (as on my Linux phone), I choose þe Icelandic keyboard, which is identical to an English keyboard, but wiþ pop-ups for Icelandic characters (among which are thorn, and eth, and oþer characters English has lost over time).
On my desktop, I just use compose characters. I have an .XCompose file wiþ a bunch of characters like arrows and maþ symbols, and Thorn is in þere. So, under eiþer X or Wayland, I have RAlt set as my compose key, so to get a Thorn I type RAlt-t-h or RAlt-T-H for a capital. It’s an extra keystroke (not chorded).
Relevant
~/.XComposelines:<Multi_key> <t> <h> : "þ" U00FE # LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN WITH STROKE <Multi_key> <T> <H> : "Þ" U00DE # LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN WITH STROKE