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I have a Galaxy S, and my locale is English (UK). Is it possible to type accented letters, such as é to a textfield using the keyboard? If yes, how?

edit: I know I can use swype but please don't recommend it because my native language is not supported by Swype and it's really not comfortable to use swype in my case

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I'm not sure if it is the same on all devices, but if you long press on the letter e then you should see a pop-up that allows you to selected accented variations of the letter e. Example: ā ñ ī ē õ ū ķ even ś and it won't give you an option that doesn't go with the letter.

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  • May I know what your model is? Mine is Galaxy S, apparently Samsung has a custom keyboard, and that doesn't work – Fitri Dec 30 '10 at 16:23
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    The long press works on the HTC keyboard (Desire HD), and on the version of the Swipe beta I have installed. – Matt H Dec 30 '10 at 19:35
  • @Friti Galaxy S comes with Swype keyboard, right? I have it installed on Motorola Milestone, and the long press works perfectly. Maybe it is the language? – Willian Mitsuda Dec 31 '10 at 04:58
  • it works with the Swype keyboard, but not with the default keyboard – Fitri Jan 08 '11 at 12:58
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    This works on my Galaxy S using the custom Samsung keyboard. – Matthew Read Jan 09 '11 at 21:46
  • not with me. May I know your selected locale and language? – Fitri Jan 10 '11 at 12:33
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    @Fitri Works for me too on a UK Galaxy S i9000, running official Samsung Froyo release, using the Samsung Keyboard as input method, and locale set to "English (United Kingdom)" and the Samsung Keyboard Input Language set to "English (UK)" and portrait keyboard type set to "Qwerty Keypad" – GAThrawn Jan 10 '11 at 22:23
  • Works fine here too. Using Finnish Galaxy S i9000, latest official Froyo (JPA), Samsung keyboard with English(US) layout and locale. Just need to long press for letter variants (àáâãåäæ). – aleksikallio Jan 11 '11 at 20:52
  • Weird... I don't have that. I'm using English (UK) as locale and "English" as language – Fitri Jan 12 '11 at 22:34
  • @Luke Dunstan: Are you running Froyo (look at my answer to this question) ? – Edelcom Jan 13 '11 at 07:56
  • As Luke Dunstan answers: but if I remember well, you do need to have Froyo (2.2) installed. I don't think I had the accented characters when I had Android 2.1 runnding on my Galaxy s. – Edelcom Jan 12 '11 at 14:45