There’s a lot to celebrate with the release of ChromeOS 103, adding support for features like Nearby Share and an updated Phone Hub with the ability to see recent pictures from your collection.
But there’s always something to look forward to down the road and we’re taking a look at one such attraction which will allow users to type out discriminating straight from their default keyboard rather than depend on ALT codes, character maps, or other sources to add these special characters. In fact, Canary channel users are able to try this shortcut out right now.
The account named C2 Productions was first shared by Twitter and subsequently reported by Chrome Unboxed. it is based on the screenshot shared by the Twitter user, diacritic suggestions will pop up when you long-press a key, illustrated below with the letter ‘c’ — in this case, a cedilla (ç). Users can click on or otherwise somehow choose this advice to use in their words or sentence.
Diacritics, often informally mention as intonation is used in most languages using the Latin alphabet besides English. Diacritics are glyphs included in a letter, such as accent marks or achievable (a hook or tail added under letters, especially in French, Catalan, and Portuguese among others) to correct or rectify and improve their pronunciation.
Until now, Google has relied on ChromeOS users swapping their system keyboards or using a character map in order to input these into text boxes. However, as spotted by C2 Productions on Twitter, as you type the company seems to be preparing a way to recommend diacritics to you.
look and check this out – below, the image shows a cedilla under the user’s typed-out standard English letter ‘c’. This may be able to be tapped to insert it in place of the regular C and is pronounced ‘sss’.
Whenever this new feature is actually applied by long-clicking a key on your keyboard with the Diacritics developer flag enabled. At this time, this can only be accomplished on ChromeOS Canary, though I’m certain this will come quickly to the permanent version of the operating system, it’s just a matter of when.
The only conflict I can see taking place with this long-tap method for calling up glyphs would be for anyone who suggests clicking and holding any key on their keyboard to repeat a symbol, like exclamation points. In those instances,
I would refer to being okay with not spamming your friends with excitement and using it the way it was intended, as one mark conveys the point, but then again, what fun is that, right?
So many of these nice-to-have features generally end up expend a long time hanging out in the pre-release stages but expecting that many Chromebooks don’t come with full number pads that will let you punch in ALT codes, we’re pretty sure this feature can’t come soon enough for multilingualism who would rather not switch keyboard languages too often.
Some keyboard shortcuts are desirable to others. and while it’s not a groundbreaking ChromeOS feature like a few we’ve seen over the years or even the ones that are also expected to be on the way, we’re also ready to bet that this keyboard shortcut will surely make typing easier for millions of users.
Image Credit – Android Police
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