Thanks, that's what I needed. Jewel Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 14, 2014, at 11:57 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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