Sony Ericsson T258C Cell Phone User Manual


 
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General instructions
Regardless of which input method you choose, your
phone has a function to speed up the entry of Chinese
characters. Whenever you enter a stroke or a Pinyin
letter, a candidate row of the most frequently used
characters containing that stroke or relating to that letter
appears at the bottom of the screen.
If the character you want is not displayed in the candidate
row, press to present another candidate row. Continue
pressing until the character you want is displayed.
Alternatively, you can enter the next stroke or Pinyin letter
and a new set of characters will immediately be displayed
in the candidate row. To go back to the previous row,
press . To select a character in the candidate row,
press the navigation key or press and hold the key
corresponding to the number above the character you
want to enter.
Stroke input
A Chinese character is built up of strokes. There are more
than 30 basic strokes, which are grouped into 5 stroke
categories. Each category is represented on the keypad
by one of the keys - . The Wild Card key , is
used when you are not sure of which stroke to use.