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Stanovoy
10-26-2008, 02:34 PM
On a BlackBerry, you can input accented letters (ä, é, ñ, etc) by holding down the letter key while scrolling the trackball. That didn't work on the G1 and I can't seem to figure out how to do it. Does anyone know?
HavocG1
10-26-2008, 02:58 PM
Yeah, I'd like to know this too...especially for the Translator App!
pinaytoy
10-26-2008, 03:08 PM
you just hold the letter down and a box will pop up with options. it works for me
Rauljr89
10-26-2008, 03:09 PM
You just have to press and hold the letter and you will get a pop up window with available characters.
pinaytoy
10-26-2008, 03:11 PM
but for some reason it wont work on this forum. im typing from my G1 now. it only works in sms i think.
Scheme83
10-26-2008, 03:12 PM
you just hold the letter down and a box will pop up with options. it works for me



thanks! my girl was just asking me how to do this yesterday and i had no clue lol
Android0523
10-26-2008, 04:41 PM
That worked for me..thank you so much...
tread
10-26-2008, 04:49 PM
haven't needed this, but i'm sure i will in the future... thanks for the tip
Crwydryn
11-13-2008, 12:48 PM
You just have to press and hold the letter and you will get a pop up window with available characters.

Great hint, but now I'm disappointed. It doesn't have the two letters I need. When I hold 'y' I only get two choices, and ŷ isn't one of them. And when I hold 'w' all I get is wwwwwwwwww. Does anyone know if there is a way to get full UTF-8, or at least get circumflexed y and w?
wilbur
11-13-2008, 01:11 PM
type shift-alt-e- then the letter you want an accent over

e.g. shift-alt-e-a

found by accident!
Crwydryn
11-13-2008, 01:23 PM
type shift-alt-e- then the letter you want an accent over

e.g. shift-alt-e-a

found by accident!

Thanks! For the circumflex, it is shift-alt-i-<letter>. It looks like other accents can be done this way.
wilbur
11-13-2008, 03:28 PM
I bet it's not in the manual!
juanjo
12-18-2008, 01:59 AM
this trick remember me the tricks for videogames, "A, left,left, up, B,X,X,X,down", and sometimes smashing all buttons on the gamepad also works.

Why don't use the a,z,x,c keys which has no "alt sym" assigned? Write accented capitalized letters is very tricky: shift-alt-e-shift-letter. I'm from Valencia, I've got a dev phone 1, and write in spanish is difficult, because we have a lot of accented words, the grave accent has its key, but its not used in spanish, we need the acute accent.

But, this is better than none.

Greets.
andi.loria
11-17-2009, 11:53 PM
HOLD DOWN ALL THESE BUTTONS AT THE SAME TIME:

ALT
SHIFT
SPACE

If u do it correctly then u should feel it vibrate and then u can type any possible accented letter u could want. Thanks .... loves&kisses ...
Linksv2
12-13-2011, 12:19 PM
What if I have an external keyboard connected via bluetooth, like a Logitech tablet keyboard. Would it work the same as the on-screen keyboard?