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Originally Posted by tomsem
- why doesn’t physical keyboard support Mac press-and-hold to generate diacritics of the letter (and which virtual keyboard supports? There are ‘legacy’ shortcuts for some of them, but by no means is that as nice to use as press-and-hold. So you have to toggle the virtual keyboard on and off to use that, or install keyboards for other languages and memorize the key layouts for those.?
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At least when I’m using Universal Control from my Mac (or have a Mac keyboard attached to iPad), the Eject key (of all things) on the Mac’s keyboard reveals and hides the virtual keyboard on my iPad Pro, so I can then long press on the VK do get the diacritic options.
There does not seem to be keyboard shortcut to reveal/hide the VK in iOS 15. Some older advice seems to be ‘press down arrow to show VK, up arrow to hide it’ but that does not seem to work any more. Seems you have to tap the language selector in menu bar and then select Show keyboard.
But it’s all more convoluted than it would be to just implement the macOS behavior, with which you can select a diacritic with the keyboard alone.