[Info-vax] VT220 emulator on iPad

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-02-22, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)
<helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <nadhcf$ajd$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
><seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 
>
>> On 2016-02-21 17:56:50 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
>> 
>> > ...but the keyboard has a German layout...
>> 
>> Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards > add or remove whatever 
>> other keyboards are appropriate.
>
> I'll try again, but everything said "US" or "American".

I have a similar situation here, except I am using English as the main
language and have a Swiss German keyboard.  I'm using a Logitech
Bluetooth keyboard, which means it falls under "Third Party keyboards",
should that make a difference.

Under Settings > Keyboard > Keyboards I have "English (UK)" and "German
(Switzerland)", but that wasn't enough to get my keyboard working
correctly.  Tapping on either of those presents another dialog with
QWERTY or QWERTZ options (plus AZERTY for the Swiss one).

I originally had this set up fine, but suspect that one or more iOS
updates between early 8.n and the current 9.2.1 clobbered something. As
a temporary workaround I was using the UK layout with the QWERTZ option.

This was fine for the most part but some of characters which require an
Alt key combination (e.g. "@") had wandered off to other keys.

The trick for me was to go into Settings > Language and Regions and add
"Schwiizertüütsch", (and while there remove "Deutsch" which I had added
in a previous attempt).

I had to look in the "Other Languages" list to locate the entry for
"Deutsch (Schweiz)" aka "Schwiizertüütsch" - which one appears seems
to depend on your currently enabled languages. [1]

However I see "English (U.S.)" in the main section of the list here so
in theory you should be good to go with that.

Expect a reboot when you confirm this.  I had two reboots - once when
I removed Deutsch, another when I added "Schwiizertüütsch".

As for a VT220 emulator, I have two.

"Mocha telnet" doesn't respond to my Logitech keyboard at all. I'm sure
it did when I first got it but the mention of iOS 7 in its Help doesn't
fill me with confidence.

The other one, "Prompt>" works fine here.

[1] This probably depends on your current language settings, but the
"Other Languages" list isn't in strict alphabetical order. Be prepared
to scroll further than you would expect to find all the language options
available.  In particular, "Deutsch (Deutschland)" and "Deutsch
(Österreich)" were located together but "Schwiizertüütsch" was a long
way down.

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