"- the spectre of communism. All the powers of old encoding have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre..."
never mind i pressed caps lock everything is better now
<Multi_key> <c> <c> <c> <p> : "\xe2\x98\xad" #symbol representing proletarian solidarity between agricultural and industrial workers
As a slightly related tangent, The compose key mnemonic interface for rarely used characters is pretty great, beats trying to remember alt codes.