How do I type special characters and accents on the iPad Pro smart keyboard? For example, I'd like to write "Róisín Murphy" with the accents in the name as shown here. But I can't find a way to do that. Isn't there like a software keyboard that I can pull up on screen for those?
Thank you.
iPad Pro Wi-Fi, iOS 9.2, With Smart Keyboard
I can answer you very easily for the accent, grave, tilde, umlaut, cedilla, and circumflex.
For the accent, hit option e, then type your letter.
For the grave, hit option grave (key left of number 1), then type your letter.
For the tilde, hit option n, then type your letter.
For the umlaut, hit option u, they type your letter.
For the cedilla, hit option c.
For the circumflex, hit option i, then type your letter.
IN ALL THESE CASES, WHEN I SAY TO HIT THE OPTION E, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU HOLD DOWN THE OPTION KEY AND AT THE SAME TIME TYPE THE LETTER AT THE SAME TIME.
This is the only way other than dislodging than dislodging the iPad from the keyboard slot and use the internal keyboard.
Happy typing and hope this helps.
Richardd
I can answer you very easily for the accent, grave, tilde, umlaut, cedilla, and circumflex.
For the accent, hit option e, then type your letter.
For the grave, hit option grave (key left of number 1), then type your letter.
For the tilde, hit option n, then type your letter.
For the umlaut, hit option u, they type your letter.
For the cedilla, hit option c.
For the circumflex, hit option i, then type your letter.
IN ALL THESE CASES, WHEN I SAY TO HIT THE OPTION E, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU HOLD DOWN THE OPTION KEY AND AT THE SAME TIME TYPE THE LETTER AT THE SAME TIME.
This is the only way other than dislodging than dislodging the iPad from the keyboard slot and use the internal keyboard.
Happy typing and hope this helps.
Richardd
Just keep pressing on the letter key and a menu of commonlya accentuated letters appears.
Bernard
Just keep pressing on the letter key and a menu of commonlya accentuated letters appears.
Bernard
If you have your keyboard set to English, then you can use the standard Mac shortcuts. For the acute, you do option plus e, then the base letter. é is option plus e, then e.
If you have your keyboard set to something else, like Italian, then it could be different. What is your keyboard set to?
Richard,
Up until recently Option-i, and then a would type â. But I think there's been a change.The Option-i, then a creates ʼa.
The only way I've been able to get the â has been to hold the a down until a little pop up appears. Then tap the right arrow three times to move to the circumflex over the a.
I swear that I have been able to get the â your way. But suddenly it's not working.
UPDATE: Just discovered that a "ABC-EXTENDED" keyboard changed the behavior of Option-i, then a. But moving back to US restored the shortcut.
Now I have to figure out where I got ABD-EXTENDED
bportier wrote:
Just keep pressing on the letter key and a menu of commonlya accentuated letters appears.
Bernard
Does that really work for you using a hardware keyboard with an iPad?
My iPad Pro does not give me the "Hardware Keyboard" option. I do not understand why.
So, I am stuck with the normal keyboards (French, German, Swedish, etc) , which, in fact, I do not use. I just press longer on a letter when I need an accent.
On the iPadPro, without the "Hardware Keyboard" option, I cannot access the "US-international" keyboard, which I have on my Mac Pro and use daily to type pinyin texts.
Simon, to type Rósín, I just used this method (press longer on the letter).
Anyone has an answer on pinyin on the iPad Pro?
Ok - the grave accent, you get by pressing option + ` and then typing the character you want.
isabelle252 wrote:
How about the accent grave (the other accent for e, there are three others, grave, circonflexe, and another)
You can find the standard option key shortcuts for everything at
http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codemac.html
To ask Apple to add the feature where you can just hold the key down, go to
m0thr4 wrote:
Unfortunately, both of your links above simply redirect to the discussions page... and on an iPad Pro, I cannot select them either!
That's really odd. Try
http://symbolcodes.tlt.psu.edu/accents/codemac.html
(it may also not work. Forums are broken at the moment for this function)
Mary Sharon Cohen wrote:
Now I have to figure out where I got ABD-EXTENDED
It's just one of the many layouts Apple lets you choose among in iOS and MacOS. It is typically activated when you have to type charactes with unusual diacritics, such as for chinese pinyin or sanskrit transliteration.
bportier wrote:
Anyone has an answer on pinyin on the iPad Pro?
If you are talking about the screen keyboard, you just switch to Chinese Simplified and do Press and Hold on the vowels. A popup menu with the 4 tones variations will appear.
bportier wrote:
Just keep pressing on the letter key and a menu of commonlya accentuated letters appears.
Bernard
Does that really work for you using a hardware keyboard with an iPad? I don't think it does for anyone else.
Hello!
I have discovered how to make these extended keyboard accents available!
On your iPad (pro) go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Hardware Keyboard > English > and then choose "ABC Extended".
Once in this mode, open your typing program (mine is Word) and hit opt+a, X where X is the letter you want to accentuate. Long-accent O: ō. This even works in this browser.
I have not yet explored what all the key combinations are for the ABC Extended hardware option is, and I'm sure the other hardware keyboards listed in the menu can do this as well, but I know that the extended keyboard can do combinations like ǜ and such.
Cheers!
How about the accent grave (the other accent for e, there are three others, grave, circonflexe, and another)
Surely an ipad pro should have something ready for that. On a normal ipad you just pressed the letter and it gave you options.
This is really rubbish, if I may say.
Special characters and accents on the smart keyboard?
