missing special characters after update to iOs4.2.1

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missing special characters after update to iOs4.2.1

On my iPhone 3GS, i use the GermanKeyboard.
Because her in Luxembourg we also use a lot of French words i need the special characters é è ...
very often. after the Update all the special characters found on e have disapeared.
Will this be fixed soon? this time i wish i had never made this update. what's about the rumours of ios4.3 in december? can this be true? and when, wich improvements will be made?

iphone 3GS, iOS 4

Posted on Nov 25, 2010 10:01 AM

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Nov 25, 2010 10:10 AM in response to poohwinny

i use the english keyboard and my "e" has the special characters.

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Nov 25, 2010 10:49 AM in response to poohwinny

thx for the tip. i tried the french keyboard yet. the characters are also there. with both the english and french keyboard i have the problem that the dictionary proposes either french or english words when typing. but i mostly need the german dictionary. and switching between the different keyboards is very annoying when writing large mails.

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Nov 25, 2010 10:51 AM in response to poohwinny

I use both the English and the French keyboards and can see all of the special characters. You might want to try turning your iPhone completely off and then restarting it to see if that straightens things out for you. If that doesn't work, a reset might help. Good luck! 🙂

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Nov 25, 2010 12:07 PM in response to Sandra Foster

with the french and english keyboards i can see all the special characters. thats not the problem.
the problem is the german keyboard. it worked with all the needed characters until the update to os4.2.
i now tried out 2 different iphone from friends who also updated. the same problem. so it can only be a bug in os4.2.

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Nov 25, 2010 11:59 PM in response to poohwinny

I can confirm this problem. The German keyboard is missing a lot of special characters after the iOS 4.2.1. update. This is a bug. Switching between French, US and German keyboard to write everything should not be the solution. Let Apple know about this bug, this renders the iPhone for a whole country pretty much useless. Unless you are French.

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Nov 27, 2010 8:19 AM in response to amadeus3000

Related to this, after the 4.2.1 update the English keyboard is missing the German ‘Eszett’ or ‘ß’ character. I’m wondering if Apple has decided to make keyboards more specific to each language. Seems like a step backwards to me.

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Tom Gewecke

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Nov 27, 2010 11:20 AM in response to amadeus3000

The place to tell Apple about these bugs is:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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Nov 28, 2010 10:33 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

I have submitted this as a bug report to Apple.

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poohwinny Author

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Nov 28, 2010 12:20 PM in response to Grant Hutchinson

Thank you all for your feedback.
I also submitted a bug report.
I hope Apple will resolve the problem.
I have my iPhone 3G for 2 years now. And it's the first phone
i have for such a long time, because it was nearly perfect for me.
If now the Os starts to become a permanent problem i will have to
change again. Let's see.

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Nov 28, 2010 4:52 PM in response to poohwinny

I had this same problem after the update.

Go to Settings.

Keyboard Settings

International Keyboards

Add German and or French.

At the bottom of Texts, E-mails ect. by the numbers button. You will see a globe. Just tap the globe to switch between keyboards.

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Tom Gewecke

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Nov 28, 2010 8:34 PM in response to rsvision.net

Just tap the globe to switch between keyboards.

The point of this thread is that you should not have to switch keyboards, which also switches spell checking. There was no reason for Apple to delete the é from the German keyboard layout and they should put it back the way it was before.

I had this same problem

What problem exactly did you have? The US Keyboard layout includes all the accents needed for German and French, so you don't need to switch anything for those, only for the German ß, which Apple again omitted without any apparent reason.

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izidor

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Jan 11, 2011 1:50 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Well, they also removed lots of other characters which are needed for other languages, such as čšž, which you can't enter at all in iOS 4.

iOS 3 was great for international usage, but iOS 4 is just for english. Too bad. What were they thinking?

I hope they bring back everything as it was in iOS 3.

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 11, 2011 5:43 AM in response to izidor

čšž, which you can't enter at all in iOS 4….iOS 4 is just for english.

That is mistaken, since of course you can enter those characters in iOS 4 by just switching to a keyboard layout that has them, like Czech. Or does that not work for you?

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Mitja

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Jan 21, 2011 10:47 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

But why should you have to switch to another keyboard layout?

Suppose one is writing something in English and has to include a person's name including čšž characters, for example (very common letters in slavic languages using roman script). Why should one have to switch between keyboards? Especially if the keyboard for that person's language doesn't exist? Or why should one have to switch dictionaries just for names (since each keyboard stores its own dictionary) ?

Up to iOS 4.1 those letters were available on all keyboards, in iOS 4.2.1 they disappeared. It's clearly a bug and a time-consuming one for non-English language use.

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tonefox

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Jan 21, 2011 11:44 AM in response to Mitja

Mitja wrote:
But why should you have to switch to another keyboard layout?

Because (and I edit a well-known world atlas index) there are over 200 accented characters in common use worldwide. We're going to need a bigger keyboard.....

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