N900 caret key doesn't work - ^

[doyley]

Hi All,

I have a strange problem with my n900. The ^ button doesn't work. Of course this can only be accessed through the virtual keyboard. All other symbols work fine, but when I press the ^ button, the button becomes highlighted but the symbol doesn't get passed through to the input field.

Anyone else having this problem?

Thanks.

[sjgadsby]

I have a strange problem with my n900. The ^ button doesn't work. Of course this can only be accessed through the virtual keyboard. All other symbols work fine, but when I press the ^ button, the button becomes highlighted but the symbol doesn't get passed through to the input field.

Have you tried pressing the space bar on the keyboard while "^" is highlighted?

[Tetharion]

i have this problem too, try taping the spacebar after highlighting ^, this works for me

[shapeshifter]

this is completely normal behaviour, as on a desktop. I'm not sure about the US keyboard layout though, but usually, "^" is an accent applied to other letters, e.g:

1) You press ^ once - it doesn't appear.
2) You press a - what appears is â (same with êîôû)

This is the same with ` and ´ and ¨ to get the letters àèìòù and áéíóú and äëïöü

You can also simply press the symbol twice, to get the same effect. E.g. I press ^ four times to get ^^

As I said I'm unsure if this should also be the case with the US layout. If it's not like this on a US layout desktop, it might be a bug to be reported, but for all non-US layouts I know, it is normal that the key does not appear after just one touch.

^^ !

[doyley]

thanks guys, pressing the space works...pressing the ^ doesn't, but since the space works all is good :)

[schettj]

In a normal US layout, ^ is just ^. You have to do some gyrations to get a hat or other accent mark over a letter via compose keys.

It's entirely possible (and also "correct") that Nokia is using "US International with dead keys" layout, in which case the behavior they are getting is not a bug but the expected behavior.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#US-International