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iPO Quick Tip

iPhone: Typing Special Characters

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 4:00 PM - by Jeff Gamet

At first glance, the touch-interface keyboard on the iPhone, iPhone 3G and iPod touch might seem a little limited because special characters like accented letters aren’t displayed along with other characters. In reality, getting at those accented letters isn’t hard to do, and you don’t even need any special keystroke combinations to do it.

To see all of the special versions of a letter, just press and hold the letter on your handheld’s virtual keyboard and wait for the fly-out menu showing the extra characters to appear. Next, slide your finger to the letter you want and release the key.


Press and hold to see extra characters.

For example, if I need an è character in a word, I hold down the E key and slide my finger to the è character on the fly-out menu. This works with every iPhone or iPod touch application that uses the keyboard, and any letter or punctuation symbol that includes special characters like accents or alternate punctuation symbols.

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