Dear Malcolm,
This is curious. I don't use a Mac, and Windows only for a few things, mostly
Adobe CS6 &c. Windows 10 runs in an instance of Oracle's VirtualBox and I
connect to it using an ancient IBM PS2 keyboard --the really loud clicky type--
made, just checked on the back, in June 1990. The keyboard connects directly
to the laptop through some sort of hardware USB emulator. Still, given all this,
the Windows version of Keyman runs just fine, no issues at all. Would the
ordinary Mac version of Keyman install on your iPad? Would that work with
your keyboard? >From my experience, it really is a good, reliable application.
Best, Richard
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Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Easy unicode for ipad? (James Hartzell)
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 08:29:36 +0800
Dear Richard,
Keyman is very useful, thank you for sharing that. The only limitation I can see (which Keyman confirmed when I asked them) is that on iOS, they don't have access to hardware keyboards when it's running as a system keyboard.
That means that if you want to use your iPad for sustained composition, in place of a laptop, you are restricted to the on-screen keyboard if you use Keyman.
So I think there's still no way to robustly integrate diacritics with a bluetooth keyboard on iPad. But I'm happy to learn that I'm wrong.
Best,
Malcolm