My usual way of typing curly and square brackets in Ubuntu is (Ctrl + Alt + B, Ctrl + Alt + N) and (Ctrl + Alt + F, Ctrl + Alt + G) respectively.
I have disabled all keyboard shortcuts involving Ctrl + Alt in the keyboard shortcuts menu, but still I cannot type any of these keys.
I am using a Croatian keyboard.
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The third level shift has a lot of aliases e.g. Alternative Character Key or Alt_Graph key.
This is how you set the key. Open Settings ➣ Keyboard ➣ Special Character Entry
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