Greek Letters and Superscript

I doubt there is any need for other apps, or copy and paste, to enter Greek letters. While the iPad is not available in my country yet, from experience with the iPhone, you should be able to type foreign languages directly into any application.

Is it possible to insert a greek character into pages on the ipad?

I know this is an old thread but it's still the top result in google for this problem so I'm posting here.

I had been copy/pasting greek letters & other symbols for a long time before I realised this trick today.

Use the iPad's shortcuts feature in keyboard settings for any symbols you use regularly, eg I use "ss2" as a shortcut for 2 and "/-" for ±, still a work around but alot smoother than what I've been doing for over a year with the added bonus of working in any app.

Combined with the greek intl keyboard this is barely a problem, even if it is a glaring omission by apple.

I just had need for Greek letters so just added Greek to my iPad then switched keyboard between English & Greek. I also sometimes use German to send some letters (eg ü ö = etc) that need umlauts. I recently had added emoji to my iPhone and now iPad instead typing :-) to get a smiley face. Very easy & handy.

IanMacDavid from my iPad as iMac keeps crashing.

IanMacDavid wrote:

I also sometimes use German to send some letters (eg ü ö = etc) that need umlauts.

For that you will probably find it easier just to hold down the key for the base letter and choose the accented version from the popup menu that will appear -- no switching of keyboards needed.

IanMacDavid wrote:

I just trie that in an email and didn't work. Pressing u just typed a hole kine of u "uuuuuu" and never gave a popup.

It certainly works for me, and I've never even heard of it not working for someone. Are you using Mail and typing in the message body?

IanMacDavid wrote:

Yes Apple Mail on iPad4 running iOS 7.1 but no idea hat version of Mail. How can I find version for iOS apps?

The Mail version doesn't matter, iOS has always worked this way.

Can you get the popup menu in Notes or Safari or Pages?

Which keyboard is active? English?

Safari no but pages gave me one shot of showing popup with 5 choices. I tried tapping umlaut-u but it didn't type it, just returned & typed regular u. I've even quit app, purged all open windows from queue and retried - never get popup again.

Just reset iPad and tried again same result. It's like I was given a once only (like password resets using temp id) and no I'll never see that again if tapping letter is only way to invoke that popup. Or did I miss something else like holding some key before tapping letter I want to modify that I've forgotten after all this trying.

IanMacDavid wrote:

Or did I miss something else like holding some key before tapping letter I want to modify that I've forgotten after all this trying.

Your keyboard is set to English, right?

Normally the popup appears when you hold your finger on a letter, nothing else required. Shown for example at

http://blogpadpro.com/2012/10/11/ipad-hints-and-tips-special-characters/

Yes keyboard English 99% of time. I switch to German as needed or Greek for characters. I see similar to link you provided but of course u has only 5 choices so much smaller image than examples there. I'm perfectly resigned to using quick keyboard swap but what you're suggesting might be nice for if I wanted an accurate spelling with accent for voila since I never enable French as a choice.

Very odd behavior. You might want to try a reset.

is it possible to superscript and subscript in pages on the ipad?