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• You can type alternate characters in two ways. You can press Shift icon and press a letter. A second method is to press
and hold the primary character. Then, select the alternate character from the options.
• The Arabic language has many diacritics that you can add to characters. To add a diacritic, press the diacritic key on
the row of touch screen keys above the keyboard. Then, touch the diacritic you want to add.
Typing in Chinese
The Chinese language input methods support the following features:
• You can type using a Latin-based alphabet on a QWERTY keyboard layout by pressing The Shift key and then a letter.
Typing in Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, or Swedish
The Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, and Swedish languages are largely based on a Latin alphabet with a few variations. These
languages use the basic QWERTY keyboard layout with the addition of Å, Æ and Ø (for Danish and Norwegian), and Ö and
Ä (for Finnish and Swedish). The keyboards also support the following features:
• Word prediction and flicking word suggestions up onto the screen (if you have this feature turned on)
• You can type alternate characters in two ways. You can press The Shift key and press a letter. A second method is to
press and hold the primary character. Then, you can select the alternate character from the options.
• Alternate characters are available for I (Ä), O (Ö), P (Å), K (Æ), and L (Ø).
Typing in Greek
The Greek keyboard supports the following features:
• Word prediction and flicking word suggestions up onto the screen (if you have this feature turned on)
• You can type alternate characters in two ways. You can press The Shift key and press a letter. A second method is to
press and hold the primary character. Then, you can select the alternate character from the options.
Typing in Russian
The Russian keyboard and language supports the following features:
• Word prediction and flicking word suggestions up onto the screen (if you have this feature turned on)
To access more Cyrillic characters on the Russian keyboard layout, you can use one of the following methods:
• To type an uppercase character, you can press The Shift key and press a letter.
• Alternate characters are available for T, I, P, L, M, or $. To type an alternate character, double-press the primary
character.
• To type an accented version of a character, press and hold the primary character. Then, you can select the accented
character.
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