Hello Jewel,
Have you added a French language keyboard to your setup under Settings? The
order in which alternative characters are displayed depends on the input
language keyboard you are using. If your input keyboard is set for French, the
"œ" ligature will be directly to the left as an alternative character when you
type the "o" on the on-screen keyboard of an iPhone. (For an iPad layout this
ligature is to the right, but it is always closer on a French virtual keyboard
than it would be if you used English). Go to Settings > General > Keyboard >
Keyboards and double tap the "Add New Keyboard" button to add a different
input language keyboard. You can choose "French". Now under "Keyboards" you
should have buttons for "English", "French", and "Add New Keyboard".
Once you have more than one input language keyboard, you can switch between
them by double tapping a "next keyboard" button that will appear to the right
of the "More Numbers" or "More Letters" button in the bttom left corner of the
screen. VoiceOver will announce your keyboard (as "English (US)" or "Français
(France)" keyboard. Also, when you select a different input language keyboard,
auto-correction will apply for common words in that language. So even if I
type the word for egg, "o e u f" without the "oe" ligature, if I have set my
input keyboard to French ("Français (France)", or else, "Français (Canada)")
and autocorrection is on, I can just type "o e u f" and then press space for
this to be auto-corrected to use an "oe" ligature or "œuf".
There's one more complication/feature for your French keyboard. Standard
French keyboards (used in France) are azerty rather than qwerty keyboards, so
the "a" and "q" positions are swapped with the "w" and "y" letter positions on
English input keyboards. If you want to change this, you need to go to
Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards and double tap the "French" button.
Then flick through the Software Keyboard Layout buttons: "Accented AZERTY",
"AZERTY", "QWERTY", and "QWERTZ" to select "QWERTY". The default setting since
iOS 6 will be "Accented AZERTY". This is an AZERTY keyboard (positions of
letters "q" and "a", and "w" and "z" swapped compared to an English input
keyboard, and with the "m" key moved up to the right of the "l" key), but with
an added "accent" key to the right of the "n" key button on the bottom row.
This "accent" button auto-detects the letter to the left of the insertion
point, and will change to the likeliest accent choices, to make it easier to
place accent marks on vowels.
Hope this wasn't too confusing. Your choice of input key combinations may also
depend on whether you are using a paired Bluetooth keyboard to enter your text
or the on-key keyboard. If you want to type in both English and French on a
hardware keyboard without changing keyboard settings at a more advanced level
of language study, you might consider using a Canadian French keyboard setting,
"French (Canada)", which has letters and most keys in the same position as an
English keyboard, but is still easier to use for typing accented characters.
Cheers,
Esther
On Friday, March 14, 2014 8:24:02 AM UTC-10, Jewel S. wrote:
> Typing ligitures
>
> I am learning French and came across the word for egg, oeuf, where oe is a
> ligiture. How do I type this? I looked under alternative characters for o,
> but it wasn't there.
>
> Jewel
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