Greek keyboard on iPhone: question

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Greek keyboard on iPhone: question

Dear Apple community,

I am a Belgian student who learns two ancient languages: Latin & Greek. Therefore, I find it very useful to have a Greek keyboard on my iPhone, but I have some questions about it. It is possible to put a normal accent (acute) on a vowel, but I haven't found a way to put a grave accent or a circumflex on a letter. Nor have I found the ability to place a breathing mark (sign of aspiration in Greek language) on the first letter of a word.
Does anyone know how to do this?

Thank you in advance for your answer(s)! 🙂

iPhone 3GS (32 GB), iPhone OS 3.1.3

Posted on Apr 16, 2010 7:57 AM

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Answer 1

Tamara

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Apr 16, 2010 8:08 AM in response to Da Mouse

When you have the Greek keyboard selected, hold your finger on the letter to see the available choices.

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Answer 2

Tom Gewecke

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Apr 16, 2010 8:43 AM in response to Da Mouse

I haven't found a way to put a grave accent or a circumflex on a letter. Nor have I found the ability to place a breathing mark (sign of aspiration in Greek language) on the first letter of a word.

As you perhaps know, even on a full computer you normally need a special polytonic greek keyboard layout to input those accents not used in modern greek. The iphone does not have such a keyboard installed. There are some apps that let you input any unicode character, like Unicode and Unicode Table, but this is rather slow. Another option is to copy/paste the greek from a dictionary like Lexiphanes.

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Answer 3

Da Mouse Author

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Apr 16, 2010 2:26 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thank you for your fast answer. Too bad to hear that this isn 't possible on the iPhone, but I kind of expected it. Thank you again. 🙂

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