From 9a88c1a18d798320141886b7209fe7ea88e665d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christine Dodrill Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 20:46:14 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] blog: explain how to type french accents on iOS with an iPad Smart Keyboard (#37) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * 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 --- ...smart-keyboard-accents-2019-05-10.markdown | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 blog/ipad-smart-keyboard-accents-2019-05-10.markdown diff --git a/blog/ipad-smart-keyboard-accents-2019-05-10.markdown b/blog/ipad-smart-keyboard-accents-2019-05-10.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9eb80b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/ipad-smart-keyboard-accents-2019-05-10.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: "iPad Smart Keyboard: French Accents/Ligatures" +date: 2019-05-10 +--- + +# 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 (forward facing accent on vowel) | Alt-e | entrée | +| è (backward facing accent on vowel) | Alt-` | fières | +| ï (two dots above a vowel) | Alt-u | naïve | +| ç (cedelia) | Alt-c | français | +| œ (oe ligature) | Alt-q | œuf | +| û (circumflex) | Alt-i | hôtel | + +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. \ No newline at end of file