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    ChromeOS 106 bringing diacritic typing to Chromebooks

    Kevin TofelBy Kevin TofelAugust 9, 2022Updated:August 11, 20224 Comments2 Mins Read
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    Although Google just pushed out ChromeOS 104, there are new features on the horizon. The latest is with ChromeOS 106, expected to add diacritic typing to Chromebooks and other ChromeOS devices.

    You might not recognize the word “diacritic” but you probably know what it means. In fact, I know some of you do because I recently received a few emails about diacritic input. It’s when there are certain accents or other marks attached to a typed character; common in many countries.

    This image is an example of a keyboard that supports diacritic typing.

    ChromeOS 106 diacritic input example for Chromebooks

    The plan is to add this feature to ChromeOS 106, although that could change. I haven’t yet seen a flag to enable it in ChromeOS 105 so the change would have to be fully coded soon.

    Here’s how Google describes the upcoming feature:

    The Essential Inputs team is planning to launch improvements to diacritic typing by including a key press functionality that showcases a new accent menu. This accent menu reveals diacritical marks associated with characters when the user presses and holds a key down on key characters with diacritics. Users will then have the option to select and insert a diacritic character or close the menu without selection. 

    Chances are that if you’re in the U.S., this feature addition will mostly go unnoticed and unused. Outside of the U.S. however, this will be very useful. So many languages have their own diacritics and I’m sure it’s frustrating for those Chromebook users who can’t type them.

    ChromeOS keyboard input methods

    Up to this point, these folks have had to rely on minimal diacritic support by choosing an international keyboard layout and using keyboard shortcuts. And even then, there’s no guarantee that the right characters will be available for them.

    By improving this unique input method and showing different character options in real-time with a long keypress, the need to remember keyboard shortcuts for diacritics will be a thing of the past.

    Hopefully, this feature does arrive in ChromeOS 106 as expected. It will make life a little easier for ChromeOS users around the world.

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    After spending 15 years in IT at Fortune 100 companies, Kevin turned a hobby into a career and began covering mobile technology in 2003. He writes daily on the industry and has co-hosted the weekly MobileTechRoundup podcast since 2006. His writing has appeared in print (The New York Times, PC Magazine and PC World) and he has been featured on NBC News in Philadelphia.

    4 Comments

    1. DennyL on August 10, 2022 10:25 am

      > I haven’t yet seen a flag to enable it in ChromeOS 105 so the change would have to be fully coded soon.

      I’m pretty sure this flag was introduced in M101 –

      Enable diacritics and variant character selection on PK longpress.
      Enable diacritics and other varient character selection on physical keyboard longpress. – ChromeOS
      #enable-cros-diacritics-on-physical-keyboard-longpress

      I think the plan is to implement it without a flag in M106.

      • Kevin C. Tofel on August 10, 2022 10:26 am

        Well how did I miss that?!? Thanks, DennyL!

    2. Robert Nielsen on August 19, 2022 6:16 pm

      ‘mostly’ being the operative word. Writers will definitely appreciate the ability to use accent marks over e’s, for example, in the word ‘fiance,’ (or ‘fiancee’). And there are other words that will be a lot easier to type.

    3. CajunMoses on October 9, 2022 6:47 pm

      I’ve noticed that if you depress and hold the key for the letter a, e, i, o, u, n, or s, you’ll get not only that default letter but also a drop-down menu from which to select a replacement for the default letter. And that’s in version 105 of ChromeOS.

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