German Umlaute on Ipad Keyboard IOS 4.2.1.

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German Umlaute on Ipad Keyboard IOS 4.2.1.

After Updating my Ipad I realized, that the way of choosing a German Umlaut i.e. "ü" has changed. I have hoped very much that with the somehow unified IOS setting the keyboard to Germany German would bring the former Ipad version of choosing an umlaut to my iphone 4 as well.

But it is now just the other way around and typing german texts on the Ipad is worse.

Of course it was a hard piece of work for you apple people to bring IOS4 to the Ipad but I would prefer to use the old version.

Apart from reading with the lost hardkey for locking the screen the change for writing in german is a kind of k.o. criterium.

Any possiblity to roll back to the former OS?

Regards
Beate

Mac Book Por 17", Mac OS X (10.6.5), Windows 7 Ultimate and Linux

Posted on Nov 23, 2010 4:20 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 23, 2010 4:56 AM in response to äpfelchen

I'll second that - the way 3.2.2 handled the Umlauts was so intuitive that I found myself pressing A on a regular Mac-Keyboard, waiting for the Ä to come :-D.

The best solution, really, would be to have ÄÖÜ ß and other special Characters available at least in the landscape keyboard - it's big enough to handle a few characters more and it would dramatically speed up my typing, as the rest of the keyboard handles almost as good as a physical keyboard.

But the second-to-best would be to have the 3.2.2 way of handling special Characters come to iPad and iPhone in 4.2.2 - it was much better than the solution we have now.

On the other hand, isn't it great when small stuff like this is the biggest complain we have after such a major upgrade?

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Nov 23, 2010 5:00 AM in response to äpfelchen

Hi,

my name is René, and I'm german. So I use the german keyboard layout for my iPhone. But now, I'm not able to write my name anymore, because there is no "é" there in the german keyboard layout. So, when I want to write my name, I have to switch to another keyboard layout. Sorry, that's a bug for me !!!

Please fix that !!!!

Regards

René (not sent from my iPhone)

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äpfelchen Author

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Nov 23, 2010 5:15 AM in response to HDSchellnack

Of course this is only a small complain but the bluetooth wireless keyboard does not fit in my handbag.

Maybe there is a tiny "department for minor affairs" in the big Apple universe so German users will be able to type in a comfortable way again 😉

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Tom Gewecke

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Nov 23, 2010 6:57 AM in response to Slotimaker

Please fix that !!!!

Such requests need to go here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

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Paul-B.

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Nov 24, 2010 6:14 AM in response to äpfelchen

Hello fellow Germans,

I found this trick on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRC9n_1BQlI&t=6s
Just swipe the key and get your Umlaut. It's even faster than tapping and waiting! Definitely an improved feature.

@René, I feel sorry for you. I hope the "é" will be fixed.

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Answer 6

May 28, 2011 2:04 PM in response to Paul-B.

The "é" is there, hold down the e and a selection of "toppings" appear. The same is true for all vowels.

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Tom Gewecke

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May 28, 2011 2:42 PM in response to apkoblenz

6 months ago, when iOS was at 4.2.1 and all that was posted, the é was not there, but this was fixed in 4.3.

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May 28, 2011 3:31 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

How do you type the é or similar when typing in this forum? Can't figure out where to find the alternate keyboard. I am using Qwerty and internet explorer 9. I copied and pasted the é from Tom's post.

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Tom Gewecke

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May 28, 2011 4:48 PM in response to apkoblenz

I think Windows users can type an "é" by holding the "Alt" key down and dialing either 130 or 0233 (on the numeric pad of the keyboard): alt + 130; alt + 0233.

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