How can I type accented letters?

[Stanovoy]

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]

Yeah, I'd like to know this too...especially for the Translator App!

[pinaytoy]

you just hold the letter down and a box will pop up with options. it works for me

[Rauljr89]

You just have to press and hold the letter and you will get a pop up window with available characters.

[pinaytoy]

but for some reason it wont work on this forum. im typing from my G1 now. it only works in sms i think.

[Scheme83]

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]

That worked for me..thank you so much...

[tread]

haven't needed this, but i'm sure i will in the future... thanks for the tip

[Crwydryn]

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]

type shift-alt-e- then the letter you want an accent over

e.g. shift-alt-e-a

found by accident!