How to override shortcuts to special characters?

I have a Mac Book Air with Finnish keyboard and according to the Keyboard viewer, there is not any built-in keyboard shortcut for curly braces. However, there are multitude of characters (e.g. the apple sign or the greek pi letter) that do have a shortcut and that I am pretty sure I will never use. Is there any way to override the standard shortcuts so that e.g. CTRL+p will be the left curly brace instead of the letter pi?

gomezher wrote:
I have a Mac Book Air with Finnish keyboard and according to the Keyboard viewer, there is not any built-in keyboard shortcut for curly braces.
I think that's not correct. According to my keyboard viewer, on the Finnish layout curly braces are made with alt + shift + 8 and 9.
If you want to set up something different, you could try using system prefs/language & text/text/symbol and text substitution
Also you can make a custom keyboard mapping with this app:
http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele

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