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title: "iPad Smart Keyboard: French Accents/Ligatures"
date: 2019-05-10
series: howto
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# iPad Smart Keyboard: French Accents/Ligatures

The following is the results of both blind googling and brute forcing the keyboard space. If this is incomplete, please let me know so that can be fixed.

| Accent/Ligature | How to type | Example  |
| :-------------- | :---------- | :------  |
| é (acute)       | Alt-e       | entrée   |
| è (grave)       | Alt-`       | fières   |
| ï (umlat)       | Alt-u       | naïve    |
| ç (cedelia)     | Alt-c       | français |
| œ (oe ligature) | Alt-q       | œuf      |
| û (circumflex)  | Alt-i       | hôtel    |
| « (left quote)  | Alt-\\      | «salut!» |
| » (right quote) | Alt-Shift-\\ | «salut!» |

You can also type a forward facing accent on most arbitrary characters by typing it and then pressing Alt-Shift-e. Circumflêxes can be done postfix with Alt-Shift-i too. Thís dóesńt work on every letter, unfortunately. However it does work for enough of them. Not enough for Esperanto's `ĉu` however.
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			`date: 2019-05-10`
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			`# iPad Smart Keyboard: French Accents/Ligatures`

			`The following is the results of both blind googling and brute forcing the keyboard space. If this is incomplete, please let me know so that can be fixed.`

blog/ipad-smart-keyboard: add guillemets 2019-06-20 19:15:54 +00:00			`\| Accent/Ligature \| How to type \| Example \|`
			`\| :-------------- \| :---------- \| :------ \|`
			`\| é (acute) \| Alt-e \| entrée \|`
			\| è (grave) \| Alt-` \| fières \|
			`\| ï (umlat) \| Alt-u \| naïve \|`
			`\| ç (cedelia) \| Alt-c \| français \|`
			`\| œ (oe ligature) \| Alt-q \| œuf \|`
			`\| û (circumflex) \| Alt-i \| hôtel \|`
markdown come on 2019-06-20 19:20:30 +00:00			`\| « (left quote) \| Alt-\\ \| «salut!» \|`
			`\| » (right quote) \| Alt-Shift-\\ \| «salut!» \|`
blog: explain how to type french accents on iOS with an iPad Smart Keyboard (#37) * blog: explain how to type french accents on iOS with an iPad Smart Keyboard This is so hard to google for. I'm making it easier. * cîrcûmflêxês 2019-05-11 00:46:14 +00:00
blog/ipad-smart-keyboard: add guillemets 2019-06-20 19:15:54 +00:00			You can also type a forward facing accent on most arbitrary characters by typing it and then pressing Alt-Shift-e. Circumflêxes can be done postfix with Alt-Shift-i too. Thís dóesńt work on every letter, unfortunately. However it does work for enough of them. Not enough for Esperanto's `ĉu` however.