With IT Mobile you NEVER need to type an accent

Re: expand non-ascii characters ? (to change ext. kbd map) -- herve5
Posted by Jean Ichbiah ® , 07/14/2005, 19:46:23 Reply Top of Thread Forum

This is from the Rationale:
http://www.textware.com/itmobile/itmobilerationale.htm

Accented letters

Instant Text Mobile includes special features to enter accented letters. Entering accents is normally cumbersome: even with Fitaly, it is a tap and slide instead of a normal tap. Other methods are far slower, causing a substantial reduction in text-entry speed. To make things even worst, the fact is that writers often hesitate on which letters need accents and what they should be.

With Instant Text Mobile, unaccented letters match glossary words and phrases that contain similar accented forms. This means that writers can enter text without accents and let Instant Text put them in the correct form. For example, typing "ver" suggests "véritable" and "véritablement." This may be convenient even when entering short words. Thus, it makes sense to type "deja" to get the more complicated "déjà" and its acute and grave accents — in fact, "déjà" already appears with "dej" or, using jump ahead, with "dj".

Actually, this was first noticed by Jacques Turbé in a message on the Prerelease:
http://textware.com/board/itmobile/posts/51.html

You never need to tap an accented letter because "e" matches "é" and "è"

Jean Ichbiah





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