Strangest thing, but I can't get a tilda ( ~ ) to type out on my N900. It's not available as a character on the hardware keyboard, but you can get to it through the hardware Symbol key, or on the symbol screen of the soft keyboard.
However, in both cases when you press the tilda nothing happens.
Anyone else see this? I had to copy a tilda from the text of a website and paste it into my text entry action to get it to input at all.
If you want a tilda above a character, then hit tilda and then the character (from keyboard). If you want a tilda on its own, then hit tilda then spacebar.
And it looks as though the tilda above a character is reserved for certain characters only. Likely to be congruent with the various languages that use the tilda in that manner.
A regular keyboard will happily type a tilde without requiring another character after it ~
But how many regular keyboards can place that tilda above the character? It is a compromise for a mobile device that is going to be used worldwide in many different languages.
Perhaps I'm not using the correct term for the character, but I'm trying and failing to type:
~
I have no problems typing letters with accentuated tilda's on them (which is entered thorough a different panel of the N900's soft keyboard)
The plain "~" character should be able to be entered by itself just like you could on the N800 and on desktop computers. I need it for web addresses and shell scripting on the N900.
Also that has nothing todo with the keyboard, but with your PCs configuration. Under GNU/Linux so called deadkeys are the default, there is generally also a nodeadkeys layout though. You might be able to set that on the N900 too, but this behavior as such is perfectly normal and fine.
But how many regular keyboards can place that tilda above the character? It is a compromise for a mobile device that is going to be used worldwide in many different languages.
Mostly every keyboard with "dead keys" - like your tilde. Otherwise it would be problematic to type letters like ã, ñ, é, à etc.
So on my normal computerkeyboard I type <~>+<SPACE> for "~" and <~>+<n> for ñ.
