Typing Armenian (or any other language with large alphabet) on a Bluetooth keyboard

I shouldn't have provided a response above without checking myself. Tom is correct. You can go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Add a Keyboard and Armenian is listed as an option.

TheArmog wrote:

Has anybody found a workaround to use Bluetooth keyboards for Armenian or any other language with large alphabets?

Apple provides a number of hardware layouts for such languages, including two for armenian. Finding them just takes an extra tap in the right place in the settings for hardware keyboards. Here is a list:

https://thgewecke.github.io/mlingmac/ios11kbs.html

So far 3rd party keyboards do not have access to hardware layouts, only those provided by Apple.

TheArmog wrote:

Now the physical keyboard on iOS does not recognise this 4th line and prints the numbers instead of the letters.

You perhaps just don't have the settings right. With the keyboard attached, go to settings > general > keyboard > hardware keyboard and over at the right edge for the Armenian entry, tap and choose the Western Qwerty option (and NOT "automatic"). This will give you the layout with 4 rows of letters (numbers are obtained via option)

The other layout (HM Qwerty) probably has all the extra stuff you need via option and option plus shift.

TheArmog wrote:

So I guess, with my Logitech keyboard it won’t be possible to access these “hardware layouts”. Armenian is not even there in the settings.

You should have no trouble using the Armenian keyboards, both screen and hardware. I can do it with a junk no name bluetooth kb.

When (with bluetooth keyboard disconnected) you go to settings > general > keyboard > keyboards > add new keyboard, do you not find Armenian in the list so you can add it?

Once you have done that, it will appear on the Hardware Keyboards list when the bluetooth kb is connected, and you can choose the western qwerty layout.

I don't know if this will help with a Bluetooth Keyboard, but I did find this if it's in any way useful to you:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/armenian-keyboard-extension/id913310793

All you can do, I suspect is provide feedback to Apple via this link: Feedback - iPad - Apple

TheArmog wrote:

I can write in Armenian on the keyboard now, but I want to have a “քոեռտը” layout and not “խվէրդե”, just like I would prefer to use “qwerty” layout and not “azerty”,

Thanks for clarifying that. It does seem a bit odd to call these layouts "qwerty". Since MacOS has the same two non-phonetic keyboards, you are probably using a 3rd party one for input there. If so, I would be interested in the link to download it, which may be helpful for other users of this language.

TheArmog wrote:

the layout is not unicode, so not really usable

Please explain what you mean by that. Everything in iOS and MacOS is Unicode. What problem do you have with the Western Qwerty layout? What layout are you familiar with?

Can't you just type here using it? Հայոց զրեր

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