Operation Manual
13
Inputting Characters
Methods of inputting characters are described in this section.
Character entry
A simple example of inputting characters is shown below.
<Example>
Enter a word ‘Gefäß’ for search.
1. Press
u
to open the input screen of
Langenscheidt Deutsch-Englisch
.
2. Type ‘Gefäß’.
On the keyboard, press
G
,
E
,
F
,
A
,
then
;
.
Note:
•
Up to 24 characters can be entered in the input field of the dictionary. When
searching for words containing 25 characters or more, narrow down the search to
select the words from the list manually.
•
To enter accented or European characters, enter their unaccented or alphabetical
equivalents as shown in the examples below. It should be noted that the search
functions do not take account of accents or case.
• ‘ä’, ‘ö’ and ‘ü’ -> enter ‘a’, ‘o’ and ‘u’ respectively.
• ‘é’, ‘à’, ‘û’ and ‘œ’ -> enter ‘e’, ‘a’, ‘u’ and ‘oe’ respectively.
• Use the
;
key to enter ‘ß’. You can also press
S
S
to search for ‘ß’.
Adjusting the LCD contrast (LCD-Kontrast)
Select this menu item to adjust the LCD contrast.
1. Press
m
,
9
, then
3
.
2. To adjust the LCD contrast, use the
[
(Lighter) key or
]
(Darker) key, then
press
e
to return to the main menu.
• While entering characters, exclude characters such as spaces, hyphens,
apostrophes, slashes, commas, periods and brackets.
<Example>
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When entering the masculine form of a word, exclude characters in
parentheses.
• Convert uppercase letters to lowercase. This is also applicable to the capitalized
first letter of a noun.
<Example>
Word Entry for search
car ferry carferry
U-Bahn ubahn
o’clock oclock
c/o co
ruck, zuck ruckzuck
z. B. zb
Autor(inn)en
*1
autorinnen
Word Entry for search
USA usa
DB db
Ausweg ausweg