[INDOLOGY] Easy unicode for ipad? (James Hartzell)

[Richard Mahoney | Indica et Buddhica]

Dear James,

Would this help?

Keyman for iPhone and iPad
https://keyman.com/iphone-and-ipad/



Best, Richard


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-----Original Message-----
From: Malcolm Keating via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info>
Reply-To: cmalcolmkeating at gmail.com
To: indology at list.indology.info
Cc: Malcolm Keating <c.malcolm.keating at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Easy unicode for ipad? (James Hartzell)
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 07:15:36 +0800

Dear James,
While perhaps not "easy," here is what I have done:

I opened up the IAST in my browser and went to Settings > General >
Keyboards and opened up the Text Replacement dialog. It was a bit
tedious, but using copy-paste, I set up a system of shortcuts which
would allow me to type, for instance, .s and have the iPad replace it
with ṣ.

There are two important limitations to this approach, if you want to
follow it:
You can't set up 'S and 's for Ś and ś, but instead you must have a
distinct shortcut like '^s for Ś. This is because text replacement is
not case-sensitive. If you want to be able to type capital letters,
you'll need a different shortcut.
You need to have spaces between the shortcuts. For instance, if I want
to type "Bhaṭṭa" I can't just type "Bha.t.ta" if my shortcut is .t as
the iPad only recognizes the shortcut when it is entered as "Bha .t .t
a." This means that composition is slower.
I'm not sure why Apple has decided not to enable the ABC-Extended
keyboard on iPads, and so far I haven't encountered a third-party app
that allows IAST typing on the OS. If anyone has solved this problem,
let me know!

Best,
Malcolm

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: James Hartzell <james.hartzell at gmail.com>
> To: indology at list.indology.info
> Cc: 
> Bcc: 
> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 08:41:17 +0200
> Subject: [INDOLOGY] Easy unicode for ipad?
> Hello
> 
> Has anyone found a way to type Sanskrit diacritics in MS-Word on the
> Ipad?
> 
> So far my attempts have been fruitless.
> 
> Cheers
> James
> 


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