How to enter accent characters on the iPhone keyboard
(Sorry, iPhone haters! Three blog posts in a row about the iPhone… Go read The Sneeze or something.)
Maybe everyone already knows this, but I just found out about it by accident: Holding down a virtual letter key can produce alternate versions of that letter for different languages.
For example, if you want to enter a character such as é (for you francophiles) or ö (for you Mötörhëäd enthusiasts), just hold down the E or O buttons on the keyboard for a second or two.
- E offers È É Ê Ë Ę
- Y offers Ÿ
- U offers Ú Ù Ü Û
- I offers à ì ï î
- O offers Ø Œ Õ Ó Ò Ö Ô
- A offers À à Â Ä Æ Ã Å Ą
- S offers ß Åš Å
- L offers Å
- Z offers Ź Ž Ż
- C offers Ç Ć
- N offers Ń Ñ
- ? offers ¿
- ! offers ¡
- $ offers ₩ ¥ £ €
- †offers » « „ †“
- ’ offers ‘ ’ ‘
Now I’ve got a question for the world. When entering a URL, how can you enter in a # character? It’s used for web page anchors within a page. There doesn’t seem to be a way to enter that character at all (other than bookmarking on your computer and syncing that bookmark over).
Update: Kevin Fox answered this in the comments. Use the shift button after hitting @123.
January 27th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Hit the @123 ‘symbol-shift’ button, *then* hit the shift button. This is also how you get to the tilde ‘~’ and a few others. Real intuitive, I know…
January 27th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Very nice. It is unlikely that I would have found that on my own.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:56 am
I’m looking for this § anybody got an ideea where is it hiding?
January 6th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Sorry, Dan, but I think you’re probably out of luck. Doesn’t seem to be a way to enter that.
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