Could any of the iPhone owners please tell me if the Icelandic characters Þ/þ and Ð/ð are supported now?
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Using Special Characters on the iPhone Keyboard (1.1.1)
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There is a way to use Japanese fonts
select tap English word entry box
Tap in an English word into the look up box
Let it load new page with translation into Japanese.
Then tap on the text box to make a new entry.
The keyboard will load with a large dark area, tap out "te" say and you'll see the hiragana for "te", tap out "W" and you'll see the kanji for "watashi".
I have been able for a short while to use online email with Japanese, an online .doc tool that allows me to type in Japanese. I even managed to use the iPhone email with Japanese keyboard but only once.
Apple clearly has support of Japanese and needs to allow us to easily access this.
I have photos if people really need proof. I'll post them later when I can iphoto them.
Go to www.alc.co.jp
select tap English word entry box
Tap in an English word into the look up box
Let it load new page with translation into Japanese.
Then tap on the text box to make a new entry.
The keyboard will load with a large dark area, tap out "te" say and you'll see the hiragana for "te", tap out "W" and you'll see the kanji for "watashi".
I have been able for a short while to use online email with Japanese, an online .doc tool that allows me to type in Japanese. I even managed to use the iPhone email with Japanese keyboard but only once.
Apple clearly has support of Japanese and needs to allow us to easily access this.
I have photos if people really need proof. I'll post them later when I can iphoto them.
WOW... I wouldn't mind having this feature on my Mac!
It might even be more useful than key repeat. After all, who can remember most of these special characters and who wants to use a special program to find them or have to start typing blindly in TextEdit?
Seriously, not a bad idea.
It might even be more useful than key repeat. After all, who can remember most of these special characters and who wants to use a special program to find them or have to start typing blindly in TextEdit?
Seriously, not a bad idea.
It would be cool if every key did that - holding 8 on the num screen would offer you an asterisk, bullet, and degree symbol for instance. Holding M would offer µ, etc.
BTW, a tip for finding these on a Mac if you forget the key: Edit > Special Characters. (Although I remember the Mac's special-char shortcuts a lot better than the weird number codes on Windows.)
BTW, a tip for finding these on a Mac if you forget the key: Edit > Special Characters. (Although I remember the Mac's special-char shortcuts a lot better than the weird number codes on Windows.)
You'd be describing Motorola's POS software, I assume ?
Prior to my iPhone I had a O2 Neo that had INCREDIBLE voice dialing capabilities, so long as you didn't record your own tags. The thing read your address book and was amazing in it's ability to pick out names, and then offer which number you wanted if they had more than one entry.
If HTC (or whoever made that thing) can do this, surely Apple can. It's very possible, and it makes driving WAY safer. Push your headset, "Call Steve Jobs Mobile" and 2 seconds later, you're talking. Eyes never left the road.
This is the single most missed feature that I gave up for the JesusPhone. But...maybe someday....
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Or how even though they are using the iphone NOT as directed (hacks) that unless apple stops their "bad behavior" they are going to Windows and or OpenMoko.
Missing the point entirely. This phone is awesome. Nothing short of revolutionary. Apple has just cracked open the door that we've all been pounding on for years...to have a single portable device that covers our phone, communication and organization needs, and even have a bit of entertainment thrown in for fun.
Those brave souls who have dared to think outside the box and tap in to the incredible potential of this technology have enlarged our vision and made us hungry for more.
True...we are no doubt impatient and demanding, but it does stroke the cat backwards a bit when there are obvious (at least to many of us) priorities that are being pushed aside.
We're not just whining...we're consumers who have paid premium prices for what we consider to be state of the art equipment and we demand the very best. These demands are only good for the marketplace. If we weren't making these noises, it would be far easier for Apple to just rest on their laurels and develop their next great must have product.
I've personally spent nearly $6000 with Apple in the past 6 months. I think that makes me a loyal customer whose opinion should count for some measure of consideration.
/rant
This could be handy. They should apply the same principal to links so that we can copy/paste them into emails and text fields on web pages.
Just double-tap the caps lock button and it will turn blue indicating it is locked.
Hmm...very interesting. It works here too. So now we know that the iPhone keyboard does in fact support Japanese, it's just that there doesn't seem to be a way to switch it to Japanese at will, at least not that we've found yet...
Unsupported keyboard characters in URLs.
Go to the proper URL on your computer and email yourself a link to that page. When the email gets to your iPhone, click on the link.
Go to the proper URL on your computer and email yourself a link to that page. When the email gets to your iPhone, click on the link.
Int'l Keyboard characters in US version 1.1.1
These are the only ones I can find:
e,èéêë? y,ÿ uúùüû ií,ìïî oøõóòöô a,àáâäæãå? s,ß? l? z,?? c,ç? n,?ñ ?,¿ !,¡
These are the only ones I can find:
e,èéêë? y,ÿ uúùüû ií,ìïî oøõóòöô a,àáâäæãå? s,ß? l? z,?? c,ç? n,?ñ ?,¿ !,¡
Wish they would've done this with .com
That's what I wished the .com "key" would do when you type in URLs.
It seemed silly to just give a shortcut to .com and none of the other subdomains. I thought it would be logical that the key would cycle through the subdomains and you just stopped on the one you wanted. ".com" would appear in the URL highlighted, then every time you pressed the key again, it would change to .org, .net, .info, etc. and then back to .com.
That's what I wished the .com "key" would do when you type in URLs.
It seemed silly to just give a shortcut to .com and none of the other subdomains. I thought it would be logical that the key would cycle through the subdomains and you just stopped on the one you wanted. ".com" would appear in the URL highlighted, then every time you pressed the key again, it would change to .org, .net, .info, etc. and then back to .com.
Very good point/idea. And a country specific top level domain depending on what your location is. So .co.uk for England, .co.jp for Japan and so on.