Keyboard Input Methods - Blackberry PORSCHE DESIGN P'9982 User Manual

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4. Select the checkboxes beside the languages that you want to enable.
If you can't select the checkbox beside a language, you may already have three languages selected.
Browse the full list of languages and clear a language that you no longer want to use. Then, select a new
input language.
Select an alternate keyboard layout
Some languages have more than one keyboard layout option. For those languages, you can select the
keyboard layout that feels most natural for you to use. The QWERTY keyboard layout is available as an
option for all languages.
1. On the Input Language screen, tap one of the enabled languages that you have already selected.
2. If more than one option exists, in the drop-down list, tap a layout.
3. If you want the layout you've selected to be the default whenever you use this language, tap Make
Default.
Change your voice input language
1. On the home screen, swipe down from the top of the screen.
2. Tap
Settings > Language and Input.
3. Tap Voice Dictation.
4. In the Language drop-down list, tap the language you want to use.
Change your keyboard language
You must set up more keyboard languages before you can switch between languages. If you set up
multiple languages that use the same keyboard layout (Such as QWERTY, AZERTY, or QUERTZ), your
BlackBerry device automatically detects words in each language.
1. At the beginning of a new line of text, tap
.
2. Tap the language you want to type in on your BlackBerry Keyboard.
If you set up two languages that use different keyboard layouts, the language and default keyboard
layout automatically switches to the other layout. If you set up three languages that use different
keyboard layouts, your device automatically cycles to the next language in the list that has a different
default keyboard layout. In both cases, your device recognizes words from all the keyboard languages
you set up.

Keyboard input methods

An input method enables you to type words or characters that are not available using the characters on
your keyboard layout. In some cases, input methods give you a phonetic approximation of a word based
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