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Need a comprehensive guide to foreign language support on Apple products, especially iPad.

Is there a comprehensive guide as to the foreign language support on Apple products?


Using https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201794 as a guide to Apple foreign language support, the keyboards on this page look like those for Windows. They do not look like what I have on iPad, and they do not show the "alt" commands found on iPad.


Keyboards on the Apple Support page look a lot like the Windows keyboards, whereas I know my iPad keyboard layouts are different. Also, the iPad Bluetooth keyboard has significantly more (and different) extended character sets than shown for Windows or Apple (above).


Where can I find these additional documentations?

iPad Pro 12.9-inch, 2nd Gen, Wi-Fi

Posted on Mar 16, 2021 9:05 AM

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User profile for user: Tom Gewecke
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Posted on Mar 16, 2021 10:03 AM

The layouts for hardware keyboards on iOS devices are the same as those found on a Mac. If you had a Mac, you could easily see all the possibilities (alt, alt shift) by using the Keyboard Viewer app. Unfortunately there is nothing like that for the iPad or iPhone as far as I know, nor has Apple produced documentation beyond what you have already found about its keyboards.


This site has some useful info about layouts for various languages:


https://keyshorts.com/blogs/blog/37615873-how-to-identify-macbook-keyboard-localization


If you have specific questions about the layouts for specific languages, I can try to answer them.

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User profile for user: Tom Gewecke
Tom Gewecke
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Mar 16, 2021 10:03 AM in response to cheapskate0

The layouts for hardware keyboards on iOS devices are the same as those found on a Mac. If you had a Mac, you could easily see all the possibilities (alt, alt shift) by using the Keyboard Viewer app. Unfortunately there is nothing like that for the iPad or iPhone as far as I know, nor has Apple produced documentation beyond what you have already found about its keyboards.


This site has some useful info about layouts for various languages:


https://keyshorts.com/blogs/blog/37615873-how-to-identify-macbook-keyboard-localization


If you have specific questions about the layouts for specific languages, I can try to answer them.

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