missing special characters after update to iOs4.2.1

i use the english keyboard and my "e" has the special characters.

I use both the English and the French keyboards and can see all of the special characters. You might want to try turning your iPhone completely off and then restarting it to see if that straightens things out for you. If that doesn't work, a reset might help. Good luck! 🙂

I can confirm this problem. The German keyboard is missing a lot of special characters after the iOS 4.2.1. update. This is a bug. Switching between French, US and German keyboard to write everything should not be the solution. Let Apple know about this bug, this renders the iPhone for a whole country pretty much useless. Unless you are French.

Related to this, after the 4.2.1 update the English keyboard is missing the German ‘Eszett’ or ‘ß’ character. I’m wondering if Apple has decided to make keyboards more specific to each language. Seems like a step backwards to me.

The place to tell Apple about these bugs is:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

I have submitted this as a bug report to Apple.

I had this same problem after the update.

Go to Settings.

Keyboard Settings

International Keyboards

Add German and or French.

At the bottom of Texts, E-mails ect. by the numbers button. You will see a globe. Just tap the globe to switch between keyboards.

Just tap the globe to switch between keyboards.

The point of this thread is that you should not have to switch keyboards, which also switches spell checking. There was no reason for Apple to delete the é from the German keyboard layout and they should put it back the way it was before.

I had this same problem

What problem exactly did you have? The US Keyboard layout includes all the accents needed for German and French, so you don't need to switch anything for those, only for the German ß, which Apple again omitted without any apparent reason.

Well, they also removed lots of other characters which are needed for other languages, such as čšž, which you can't enter at all in iOS 4.

iOS 3 was great for international usage, but iOS 4 is just for english. Too bad. What were they thinking?

I hope they bring back everything as it was in iOS 3.

čšž, which you can't enter at all in iOS 4….iOS 4 is just for english.

That is mistaken, since of course you can enter those characters in iOS 4 by just switching to a keyboard layout that has them, like Czech. Or does that not work for you?

But why should you have to switch to another keyboard layout?

Suppose one is writing something in English and has to include a person's name including čšž characters, for example (very common letters in slavic languages using roman script). Why should one have to switch between keyboards? Especially if the keyboard for that person's language doesn't exist? Or why should one have to switch dictionaries just for names (since each keyboard stores its own dictionary) ?

Up to iOS 4.1 those letters were available on all keyboards, in iOS 4.2.1 they disappeared. It's clearly a bug and a time-consuming one for non-English language use.

Mitja wrote:
But why should you have to switch to another keyboard layout?

Because (and I edit a well-known world atlas index) there are over 200 accented characters in common use worldwide. We're going to need a bigger keyboard.....