[Bernd12345]

I just switched from E71 to E72.

What I am missing is that Chr button which was at the bottom right corner.

This button in combination with u it provided ü etc.

 When pressing only this button it showed the symbol list. That is all gone?!

Anybody an idea how to get an umlaut to the E72?

Thanks!

[rycheman · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Sym button (also Bluetooth icon) in the bottom row should do the trick in E72.

Cheers.

[eseriesfinn]

I cant get an o with umlauts however....works with u, e, a, and even i. but what about the ö???

[Bernd12345]

The ö work for me the same way Sym-o

[eseriesfinn]

Really? Mine scrolls through a bunch of different o symbols but no umlaut...are you trying with an E72 for SMS? It does seem very odd so perhaps I have some bug...

[Renetic]

I'm not sure if this has been discussed, but you have to keep the Sym button pressed and then repeatedly hit the O (or whatever umlaut base character) until you get the desired one.

[d_t_a]

Thanks for floating this topic back near the top of the forum posts.

I've actually asked the Nokia Call Center in our country (I called the Nokia Care hotline for our country - Philippines). I asked the tech support representative over the phone, how can I get a u-umlaut.  I mentioned that on my previous phone (a 6-year old Nokia 3530), I was able to do that with Symbols (* key).  How come there doesn't seem to be a u-umlaut in the Symbols menu of the Nokia E72?  The tech support guy mentioned that the E72 being a high-end phone, doesn't have this feature.

I let that pass for more than a month (since I got the phone last December, and almost immediately asked that question the first week I got that phone).

Fortunately, I saw this post now, otherwise, I still would have thought it's not possible to enter special/foreign characters on the E72.

Looks like the Nokia Careline doesn't have a lot of the answers and may sometimes even give wrong information... Tsk tsk.. :-(

[grschinon]

The care line is often behind the curve when it comes to information like that.

I'm pleased I found this thread anyway because, like you, I was a little frustrated about having to switch to French and enable predictive text in order to get words out proprely with accents.

Unfortunately, the solution is only half-baked. For example, you can get the 'å' used in Norwegian, but not the ø. OK, this handset doesn't officially support Norwegian so maybe that's why.

[d_t_a]

Assuming that the letter ø can indeed be displayed by the cellphone, maybe what can be done is to save "special" characters in a Word document from the PC and then transfer it to the cellphone.  Then open the QuickOffice app in the E72 and copy & paste that special character to your SMS message.

At least, that's what I did regarding the u-umlaut (I rarely need that letter anyway before) -- I created a Word document in the PC with these special characters and saved it to my memory card and opened it from QuickOffice to copy & paste it to SMS.  It's a much longer process, but it worked.

I think it may be possible to install other input methods. I've tried the QQ Pinyin input method (actually this is for Chinese input, however it seems to have a menu which contains lots of symbols -- it's actually for Chinese input, however it also allows inputting Greek letters and Russian characters. Although the menu is in Chinese, there might be an English-translation for the menu out there though)

http://mobile.qq.com/py/download.jsp

[eseriesfinn]

Yes I seem to get every other umlaut, including the 'ü', but no 'o'...it seems some phones do or don't get different umlauts. I bought mine in the US and it's the E72-2 model with all the latest updates.

Did someone mention that the call center replied saying some phones do and some phones just do not support different characters?