Sometimes I text or post in German, so I love the fact that I can long press the a, o, or u keys to **optionally** get a menu of diacritical marks for the umlauts. This is much easier than using a hardware keyboard with a PC and remembering the needed keyboard shortcuts. In fact, the ALT sequences I find via Google don't even work anymore, at least not on my Surface tablet.
However!
Having used an old phone stuck on v9 and recently replaced it with a new one on v13, since updated to v14, I now find I'm getting foreign alphabet letters randomly and without any long pressing, e.g. č̣, ę, ẓ̌, ć, etc. And I'm using the English keyboard.
Why is this happening? Is there now some ridiculous and bizarre protocol where I have to pull my fingers or thumbs off the key at exactly the right angle and velocity to get plain English letters?
However!
Having used an old phone stuck on v9 and recently replaced it with a new one on v13, since updated to v14, I now find I'm getting foreign alphabet letters randomly and without any long pressing, e.g. č̣, ę, ẓ̌, ć, etc. And I'm using the English keyboard.
Why is this happening? Is there now some ridiculous and bizarre protocol where I have to pull my fingers or thumbs off the key at exactly the right angle and velocity to get plain English letters?
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