[snakehand]

All my previous Nokia phones with numeric keypad had a large set of diacritics avilable through multitap, but I am really dissapointed to discover that my e63 has a limited (to non-existant) set avialable when typing. I am reluctant to put my dissapointment down to naïveté, proper language support can be reasonably expected.

The odd thing is that it is impossible to write a number of English words correctly on this device, such as:

exposé   (not the same as expose)

naïve     (or indeed naïveté as in my 3rd sentance)

pâté

piqué

rosé        (As a wine, not the flower)

saké      (the drink)

résumé  (as opposed to the verb resume)

Also, names can be difficult to write:  Adélaïde, Jørn, Åge, El Niño, Jürgen, Väinö etc

Predictive text in combination with different input languages will with luck provide you with some of these diacretics, but it seems that Nokia took a shortcut, and rather than provide a generic input mechanism for latin characters, relies on the T9 predictive text input for a small subset.

Here is my top tip to the Nokia engineers: If you don't want to program a proper keyboard input mechanism, you could at least make an "International dictionary" avilable, one without any words, but just the diacritics found in Latin-1 (or Latin-2 / Latin-15)

Please provide a fix for this excellent device, and don't let it linger 20 years behind the competitors with regards to text input. The ironic thing is that the devices that sport a full keyboard have more limitations  on what can be typed, than older devices with a 1/3rd as many keys.

[thundertiger · Accepted solution]

I have an E71.  Should be similar in OS to your E63.

To access the accented characters hold down the bottom right key. Should be labeled chr/ctrl (at least on mine)

While that button is held down.  press on the letter you want to have the accent on.  It should now type with an accented character.. if it is not the right one then just tap the same letter again (again with the chr key held down).

Hope this makes sense and helps!

[snakehand]

Thank you! I called Nokia care, visited 3 Nokia stores, and no-one there could help me. I had tried almost every key combinations, but appearantly not this one. Thsi works great.

Problem is solved.

[danielbong]

Thank you! You are God sent!  I've read the manual and only this thread had the answer.  Now I'll be able to textl my friends in French again.

[generalsunzi]

Thundertiger, thank you very much.

Perhaps you may also explain another quirk of the E71: I have a European E71 with Italian, French, English, Dutch and German, languages which I use.

Now, when the default language is set to Italian, for instance, I would expect that by pushing the control key alone I would see all special Italian accented characters, for instance ì or ò, but no!

I only see upper-case accented characters, even when the keyboard is in lower-case mode.

I admit that this is a rather petty peeve, yet, as a software engineer I cannot understand why this peculiar behaviour...

Thank you so much again, as yours is the only way I am able to write correctly Italian or French.

[douglasheld]

unfortunately the solution is incomplete, the "ring a" character is missing, making the e63 unsuitable for editing Norwegian, Danish, Swedish (and to some extent Finnish). I do have the other nowegian/danish vowels æ and ø, but not ring-a.

I have exhausted my keyboard, discovering the Icelandic thorn, D-thorn and Turkish soft g in the process....

Ring-a must be nearly the most common letter in norwegian; can someone please explain?

[snakehand]

The most commonly used Norwegian characters æøå can be found by selecting the dictionary language to German or Spanish, depending on your model. You may have to hit the a key 6 times before you get an å, but it should be there.

[douglasheld]

That doesn't make any sense, but it does work.

Thanks for the workaround!