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Paste text

only appears when you have text stored on the clipboard.

To edit text in landscape orientation

1When you enter text, touch and hold the text field until Edit... appears.

2Select the text you want to work with, then tap Edit... and select an option.

To paste text from the clipboard, you can also hold the text field until Paste appears, then tap Paste.

On-screen keyboard

Tap the keys of the on-screen QWERTY keyboard to enter text conveniently. Some applications open the on-screen keyboard automatically. You can also open this keyboard by touching a text field.

Using the on-screen keyboard

 

 

 

 

 

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1Enter separator

2Display numbers and symbols

3Display smileys

4Enter a space

5Select input methods

6Switch between Chinese and English input

7Enter a carriage return

8Delete a character before the cursor

9Close the on-screen keyboard view

Chinese input

Stroke input

Pinyin input

General instructions

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.

Stroke input

A Chinese character is built up of strokes. There are more than 30 basic strokes, which are grouped into 5 stroke categories.

Components

The basic building units of Chinese characters are components that are made up of strokes. After entering the first two strokes of the desired character, the component and

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Sony Ericsson ST18i Chinese input, On-screen keyboard, Using the on-screen keyboard, To edit text in landscape orientation