tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post872547776603373065..comments2024-03-26T12:11:00.593-06:00Comments on Multilingual Mac: iPad Language Capabilities UpdateTom Geweckehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-44996867004710267762011-03-05T06:14:45.461-07:002011-03-05T06:14:45.461-07:00speakers -- just as in the full OS X, the Dictiona...speakers -- just as in the full OS X, the Dictionary is only provided in English and Japanese.<br /><br />The info in this article is long out of date, so you might want to check later blog entries.Tom Geweckehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-60155208455527006712011-03-04T19:00:15.962-07:002011-03-04T19:00:15.962-07:00I hope the built-in dictionary is not only availab...I hope the built-in dictionary is not only available in the English language.speakers for ipadhttp://speakersforipad.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-3350658815678975392010-11-23T06:45:49.097-07:002010-11-23T06:45:49.097-07:00George -- Surely you know that the user has no acc...George -- Surely you know that the user has no access to the system to change anything at all in iOS devices.<br /><br />I suspect that the iOS virtual keyboard layout software system does not have deadkey capability yet.<br /><br />You can presumably use a hardware keyboard in the normal way, howeverTom Geweckehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-21969606605619479832010-11-23T03:34:00.006-07:002010-11-23T03:34:00.006-07:00The iOS (even the 4.2) has an inconvenience (let&#...The iOS (even the 4.2) has an inconvenience (let's say paradox) for the Greek Keyboard. The dead key sequence for the accented letters is wrong. And furthermore, I can not understand how this is possible when in the OSX is right!<br />The right sequence is "accent - character" not "character - accent". (If someone is speed typing, this is more than awful.) You can find theGeorge Glikofridishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12098382190568684592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-6849393381272442142010-10-31T11:37:32.793-06:002010-10-31T11:37:32.793-06:00Nobody can tell you why some feature is missing fr...Nobody can tell you why some feature is missing from the iPad. Please keep up with the available info:<br /><br />http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2010/09/ipad-keyboards-in-ios-42.htmlTom Geweckehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-48833362650575865232010-10-31T11:24:46.358-06:002010-10-31T11:24:46.358-06:00I still do not understand why iPhones and iPod sup...I still do not understand why iPhones and iPod support Chinese traditional, but not iPad. This makes it so inconvenient for hong kong and Taiwan users. I really need .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-68607969425469192642010-09-27T03:48:39.074-06:002010-09-27T03:48:39.074-06:00anonymous -- could you provide the url of what exa...anonymous -- could you provide the url of what exactly you are trying to read and indicate what app you are using, so I can check it for myself? email details to me: tom at bluesky dot orgTom Geweckehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-90797407670834755892010-09-26T21:41:46.296-06:002010-09-26T21:41:46.296-06:00My iPad won't read Yale Library's Unicode ...My iPad won't read Yale Library's Unicode French. I downloaded a free Set Character Encoding app from the App Store which gets the job done but puts in accents aigus which should be graves -- pièce comes out as piéce.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-35432660250333504602010-08-14T10:53:10.267-06:002010-08-14T10:53:10.267-06:00Michelle -- email me (tom at bluesky dot org) with...Michelle -- email me (tom at bluesky dot org) with the details and I will try to help. Can you not find a chinese book? You found one but cannot read it? Did you try both iBooks and Kindle.app?Tom Geweckehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-42018475529490096172010-08-14T09:52:21.316-06:002010-08-14T09:52:21.316-06:00I'm trying to read iBooks in Chinese, how is t...I'm trying to read iBooks in Chinese, how is that possible? I can't seem to find a way.Michellenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-4807024964341769022010-06-26T09:02:22.295-06:002010-06-26T09:02:22.295-06:00joshyv -- that seems odd. Can you read these ok i...joshyv -- that seems odd. Can you read these ok in the full os x? Could you provide the url for one or send me a copy (tom at bluesky dot org)?Tom Geweckehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-12643797551018346552010-06-26T08:54:26.106-06:002010-06-26T08:54:26.106-06:00i could not find a useful app in the store that en...i could not find a useful app in the store that enabled me to read pdf's with greek letters. goodreader, iAnnotate, Stanza, iBooks, and the built-in preview using safari also failed to render greek characters. i'd very much like to read them, as i mostly read statistics articles, which include lots of greek letters.joshyvhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09462404532001932841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-85712880445404869032010-06-21T16:27:25.435-06:002010-06-21T16:27:25.435-06:00Mimi -- Did you try the Greek keyboard apps in the...Mimi -- Did you try the Greek keyboard apps in the app store? Are they not useful for anything?Tom Geweckehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-37157476190372831842010-06-21T16:23:42.104-06:002010-06-21T16:23:42.104-06:00Hi Tom, your blog showed up in my google search fo...Hi Tom, your blog showed up in my google search for Greek keyboard for the iPad. Just got my iPad today and am so disappointed it has no support for Greek keyboard. All my searches so far for an alternative solution have been disappointing :( hopefully apple will do something about it soon like it did for the iPhone. <br />Great blog btwMimihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12243818533646008412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-15425856437177101542010-06-11T03:51:04.440-06:002010-06-11T03:51:04.440-06:00George -- The settings for US International and US...George -- The settings for US International and US Extended apply only to hardware keyboards, nothing to do with the virtual keyboard. The choices for English virtual are qwerty, azerty, qwertz.<br /><br />http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/ipadkbs.html<br /><br />The tech specs for the iPad, issued Jan. 27, show no support for Icelandic yet, so I am not surprised you can't find that in Tom Geweckehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-22893876931200528352010-06-10T21:07:47.911-06:002010-06-10T21:07:47.911-06:00checked the iPad today, and tried the US-Internati...checked the iPad today, and tried the US-International (PC) and the US-Extended layouts. First the US-International is not laid out as in PC. There is eth and thorn missing (essential to write those two Icelandic letters). The US-Extended also is missing eth and thorn. It also missing other diacriticals. Using any of these keyboards would only display the possible diacriticals after keeping George Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09177737802134891708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-64353401321562159292010-05-31T04:01:51.494-06:002010-05-31T04:01:51.494-06:00Anonymous -- See this article:
http://m10lmac.blo...Anonymous -- See this article:<br /><br />http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2010/05/viewing-hindi-tamil-bengali-websites.htmlTom Geweckehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-23557296139293974882010-05-31T03:59:25.643-06:002010-05-31T03:59:25.643-06:00Hi Friends!
Nice to read this forum. Recently I b...Hi Friends!<br /><br />Nice to read this forum. Recently I bought an IPad,. Saari is there for internet browsing, but it can't disply the Devnagari script (Indic script) properly. So I cant read many web pages written in Devnagari, especially the news site. Does anyone have any idea how to view the Devnagari script properly in IPad? Please help. Or is there another internet browser that can Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-73138581997031834592010-04-18T06:52:54.633-06:002010-04-18T06:52:54.633-06:00Tim -- Wow, that is most interesting! I wonder if...Tim -- Wow, that is most interesting! I wonder if that would also work with fonts like Devanagari MT, and if the app were a browser. That would really expand the capabilities.Tom Geweckehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-60862877299798240262010-04-18T02:53:07.548-06:002010-04-18T02:53:07.548-06:00I've only tested this in the iPad simulator, b...I've only tested this in the iPad simulator, but Tibetan text displayed correctly if an app includes compatible fonts (iPhone OS 3.2+ now allows apps to easily include fonts).<br /><br />It worked with fonts that worked in Leopard (10.5) i.e. Kokonor, Kailasa and the Xenotype fonts. Jomalhari doesn't work.<br /><br />OS 3.2 also lets an app specify a custom keyboard view for text entry, Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17782269891282150173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-17007501287746273712010-04-08T21:13:50.215-06:002010-04-08T21:13:50.215-06:00Thanks for the info, James.
Yes, the Unicode inpu...Thanks for the info, James.<br /><br />Yes, the Unicode input apps can type Lao, but usually it is very inconvenient, since you have to copy/paste each character separately.Tom Geweckehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-34161760880040090552010-04-08T20:59:16.625-06:002010-04-08T20:59:16.625-06:00I tested an iPad with Lao unicode font on www.rfa....I tested an iPad with Lao unicode font on www.rfa.org/lao and it displayed the characters correctly and beautifully. You can zoom in on the text to make reading easier and it still looks quite clear.<br /><br />As far as I know, it is not possible to type Lao on an iPad using the included keyboard layouts. Can any of the iPod/iPHone Unicode input apps type Lao? How convenient are they to use?Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10719473600368358429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-48470692713095145512010-04-05T15:59:55.007-06:002010-04-05T15:59:55.007-06:00Do they need to be 'ported'? I thought iPa...Do they need to be 'ported'? I thought iPad runs iPhone OS. Well, it might need some 'tweaking' (different form factor, etc), but I don't expect those tweaking to be language/kbd/ime-dependent (at least not very much). <br /><br />Koreans (who are in love of iPhone these days) must have been very much disappointed to find that Korean input is not supported on iPad ;-). JFYI, photon08https://www.blogger.com/profile/00289274304283243571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-7663094421388911342010-04-05T12:23:53.254-06:002010-04-05T12:23:53.254-06:00Yes, the iPad has fonts and can do correct display...Yes, the iPad has fonts and can do correct display of everything the iPhone can display, including Arabic and Hebrew and Thai. It fails to display correctly the same things as the iPhone, namely Indic scripts.<br /><br />I think the failure to port over the 2 dozen or so additional keyboards from the iPhone was most likely just lack of time and resources, so they will be added in future updates.Tom Geweckehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03947144407429196465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6179600510376940959.post-13722961024871408802010-04-05T12:10:06.250-06:002010-04-05T12:10:06.250-06:00I've just taken a very brief look at my collea...I've just taken a very brief look at my colleague's iPad and it does have fonts for Thai, Devanagari, Tamil, Malayalam, Arabic (and I believe it has (a) Hebrew font(s) as well. I didn't check explicitly because I took it for granted). Complex script shaping was broken in some cases, though. <br /><br />In case of input support, indeed they support a lot fewer languages than iPhone( Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com