I agree on that one, I often write emails in english, and then get a chat or
text message in german, and then go back to writing a dutch email, and so
on. It really works super on the iphone, we just need a little switch locale
key on the keyboard. The functionality is there, just not the button i
think.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Mariano Kamp <[email protected]>wrote:

> It's not about special characters, Mark. It's about the on-screen-keyboard
> being usable at all. The thing is that the predictive part is based on a
> dictionary. I want to switch that dictionary on-the-fly, like it can be done
> on the iPhone. It seems on Android that means I have to go to settings and
> change my Locale which is really not a practical solution.
>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:04 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Mariano Kamp wrote:
>> > When typing text with the iPhone's on-screen-keyboard there is a little
>> > "key" in the lower left that lets me toggle between German and English
>> > (in my case).
>> >
>> > I can't seem to find this functionality on the Android keyboard.
>>
>> Hold down the letter of interest, and up will pop a bubble with various
>> variations of that letter combined with diacritical marks (umlaut,
>> tilde, etc.).
>>
>> Beyond that, though, I don't think the stock keyboard offers anything
>> else that would help.
>>
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