Tech: Typing foreign stuff & symbols on a PC

Subject: RE: Tech: Typing foreign stuff & symbols on a PC
From: DaveRo
Date: 06 Apr 17 - 10:10 AM

Jack Campin wrote: How do I get the extra characters used in Turkish and Hungarian when using an iPhone?

My wife has a Greek keyboard on her iStuff. I just tried it. It's a tap on the little globe to the left of the spacebar - or a long-tap and a second tap to select Greek - to change the keyboard and another tab or two to return to English. So add a Turkish keyboard. I don't know how you do that but I can guess.

Same on Android which I use.

Subject: RE: Tech: Typing foreign stuff & symbols on a PC
From: Jack Campin
Date: 07 Apr 17 - 01:23 PM

Jack Campin, how did you do what I see above?

Typed in the HTML codes directly. If I'd wanted an Azerbaijani lower-case upside-down e (ə) I could have typed in ə

Unfortunately I have an iPhone 4 with a version of iOS (the latest that will work, I think) which doesn't have the globe icon.

Subject: RE: Tech: Typing foreign stuff & symbols on a PC
From: Mr Red
Date: 08 Apr 17 - 02:25 AM

Mr Red's Hash Code generator

it displays codes and with will appear on your screen below each. Euro accents are quite low in number. Just scan (+10 eg) until the character you want, and remember/copy-paste the code. If you use it regularly remember the code. There are shortcuts to various number groups.

Fiddly and suited to PCs more. But I use it when needed. Even for emoticons.

Subject: RE: Tech: Typing foreign stuff & symbols on a PC
From: DaveRo
Date: 08 Apr 17 - 02:33 AM

Jack Campin wrote: I have an iPhone 4 with a version of iOS (the latest that will work, I think) which doesn't have the globe icon.

Wife's iPhone is a 4, iOS 7.1.2.

Perhaps the globe only appears when you have 2 keyboards.

Subject: RE: Tech: Typing foreign stuff & symbols on a PC
From: Jack Campin
Date: 08 Apr 17 - 03:48 PM

Thanks. The globe icon was there all along, and I had set it up to switch to Turkish already - I'd forgotten it was there because it never gives me any grief. (Whereas if I try to use my wife's iPhone 6, I am likely to make a finger slip and then have to cycle through a couple of dozen scripts including some I don't even recognize before ending up back in English).