Write Danish on english ipad keyboard

These letters were produced on the iPad English keyboard by tapping and holding down on the A key.

There are no keyboard shortcuts on the internal keyboard. Some apps allow for keyboard shortcuts. I have a WP app that has Mac keyboard shortcuts, but it is a feature of the app itself.

You will have to research the individual keyboard types to see if they offer that feature.

Nerdfield wrote:

I'm thinking of an external keyboard like a blutooth keyboard with no Æ, Ø or Å.

Any standard external bluetooth keyboard will work just like your sister's MacBook Pro and make accented characters via the option/alt shortcuts. This is determined by the software inside the iPad.

Spellcheck would be more complicated, however, as that is determined by the iPad's keyboard. So you can type the Danish characters, but spellcheck will be for English, so you would want to turn it off probably. If you switch to the Danish internal keyboard to get the right spellcheck, I think your hardware keyboard may behave like a Danish layout (with results different than what is printed on the keys).

Why not just add a Danish Keyboard from Settings?

Harlemite wrote:

Why not just add a Danish Keyboard from Settings?

That will ensure that spellcheck is for Danish. But since he cannot get a hardware keyboard printed for Danish, only English, he would have to put up with some of the keys not producing what is printed on them.

But the keys produce exactly what's printed on them. Unless I'm misunderstanding something in your approach, I know that when I choose Swedish characters for Swedish on my iPad, I use the language chooser key (see below), and those characters appears in Swedish on my keyboard. When I go back to U.S. English, everything is back in U.S. English. I do it quite a bit when typing something to someone who understands both languages.

Harlemite wrote:

But the keys produce exactly what's printed on them.

You are talking about the ipad's internal screen keyboard. The OP Nerdfield is asking about how to use an external bluetooth keyboard, like that found in the Clamcase, to type Danish, even when that external keyboard has only the normal English letters printed on it. If you read his second posting, it says "I'm thinking of an external keyboard like a blutooth keyboard with no Æ, Ø or Å."

Thanks tom. My apologies for the mix-up.