When you want to type an ‘okina-vowel, touch and hold down your finger over the vowel for a second or two, and it will pop-up a list of available diacritic characters (see the graphic at right to see how this list looks when I held down over the letter “a” on the keyboard).Rather than adding a new Hawaiian keyboard and requiring users to switch, the standard US Keyboard now allows you to insert the vowel-kahakī characters and ‘okina. In June of 2009, Apple added Hawaiian support in its operating system for iPhone 3.0. This is the legacy text from 2010 regarding iOS support that I cam keeping here for documentation purposes. Once you have pressed the ‘okina, it should be inserted into your text and you will be returned to whatever application into which you are entering the text. If you don’t know what U+02BB is or means, that is even more reason not to argue with me about it.
HAWAIIAN OKINA GOOGLE DOCS MAC
It is not the same Unicode value as the character generated by the Hawaiian keyboard on Mac OS, but the glyph (the character shape) is the same, and this character is found in far more fonts than U+02BB is. I worked with the Unicode Consortium, Apple, and Microsoft on making this possible. Choose the one that looks like a single, open quote. When you’ve done this, you will see the various numbers and characters you can type. You will see a list pop up of the various diacritics that can be added to any vowel (and some consonants).įor the ‘okina, you first need to clock on the “numbers and characters” key on the lower left side of the keyboard (it shows “?123”). Otherwise, this is what you do to generate the ‘okina and kahakō without activating the Hawaiian keyboard.:įor lower-case vowels with kahakō, simply long-hold (press and hold on the vowel for a few seconds). If you do a lot of typing in Hawaiian, I suggest you visit the page Hawaiian Support In iPhone/iPad/iOS For Power Users (Those Who Need To Type In Hawaiian A Lot). It is possible to type the ‘okina and kahakō without activating the Hawaiian keyboard, but simply using the English (U.S.) keyboard (and probably others that I have not tried. It was not designed for those that needed to occasionally add the kahakō and ‘okina to text, though obviously it could be as useful for them, with some issues. Therefore, our tools were designed to assist those that worked in Hawaiian and were creating curriculum for Hawaiian learners. I hope it works for you as it has for me and many others.īefore Activating The Hawaiian Keyboard, Ask Yourself “Do I Really Need To?”īack when we (Hale Kuamo‘o, UH-Hilo) were working with technology companies like Apple, our efforts were to empower those who were working in a primarily Hawaiian language environment. It is provided for general information only. To reiterate my geneeral disclaimer, I do not provide personal tech support to anyone using this page. Also, I used a dark theme, so don’t freak out if your iPad’s interface looks different. Earlier and later versions may be slightly different.
This documentation was made on an iPad Pro, circa 2021 using iOS 14.5.1.
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