Sony Ericsson P990i - Manual (Page 58)

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58 January 2006
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Input Methods
Strokes is an input method based on the graphical
building blocks of Chinese characters.
Pinyin is a way of phonetically describing a Chi-
nese character using the Latin alphabet. An exam-
ple of this is Bei Jing, where Bei is the
pronunciation of one character and Jing that of
another.
BoPoMoFo is a method of describing a Chinese
character using a set of approximately 37 phonetic
characters. This method is also known as Zhuyin
and is mainly used in Taiwan.
Predictive Text Input: if switched on, as the user
enters text, the word or next word prediction sug-
gestions are presented on the screen. User can
input one sentence without any interruption.
Initial phonetic and mixed initial phonetic pinyin
input are also supported.
Fuzzy pinyin can be supported in the simplified
pinyin input method.
Conversion from Simplified Chinese to Traditional
Chinese is supported in mainland China and Singa-
pore load modules. Conversion from Traditional
Chinese to Simplified Chinese is supported in the
Hong Kong and Taiwan modules.
Handwriting Recognition
The user enters text directly on the screen. The
shapes drawn are shown until the character is
interpreted. Simplified and Traditional Chinese are
supported on the relevant versions.
The user can select single character recognition or
Multi-character recognition which can act on Chi-
nese text input and English text input simultane-
ously.
Recognition speed can be adjusted in the Chinese
handwriting set-up. There are ten different speed
settings for the user to select.
Latin handwriting methods can be set to either
Nature handwriting or Graffiti handwriting. Users
can select their preference according to their hand-
writing style.
Pen colour and size also can be set by the user.
Spaces, backspaces, new lines and symbols can
be input easily via the extra buttons on the key-
board.
Hardware keyboard character
input
The QWERTY keyboard in Mainland China, Hong
Kong and Singapore supports pinyin input. The
pinyin input method can be activated by pressing
the shift key and space keys together.
Market Product
Name Keypad keys Default Input
Method Alternative Input
Method Flip keyboard
Mainland China P990c Strokes, Latin Pinyin Strokes QWERTY (Pinyin)
Hong Kong P990i Strokes, Latin Strokes Pinyin QWERTY (Pinyin)
Singapore P990i Strokes, Latin Pinyin Strokes QWERTY (Pinyin)
Taiwan P990i BoPoMoFo,
Strokes, Latin BoPoMoFo Strokes QWERTY