HTC Desire Keyboard Query

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#70626 27-Oct-2010 20:06

I've had the HTC Desire for a couple of months now (<3 Clove) and have a query that Google hasn't helped me with (perhaps I don't know how to search properly). I would like to enter a particular character from the stock keyboard (HTC Sense?); the '|' 'pipe' character does not appear to be available.

Is this known to any other HTC users and is there a fix (perhaps a replacement keyboard app? Thanks in advance.

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#396472 27-Oct-2010 20:08

I have CyanogenMod on my Desire, and it has it.

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#396626 28-Oct-2010 01:15

here's a pipe
|
posted from SwiftKey keyboard.

Kiwi1971

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#396659 28-Oct-2010 08:43

You could try the free SlideIT keyboard from the appmarket. It is a Swype style keyboard where you drag your finger across the letters in the word you are writing and it guesses [fairly accurately] what you are trying to type. Pretty fast and has | in the alternative characters pages.

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#396888 28-Oct-2010 15:44

There isn't a pipe character on the Desire and I just checked my Desire HD - not on that either. There is, however, a modified HTC_IME keyboard that has both Voice Input and a pipe key on xda. I haven't tried it but others seem to think its good.

Everyone who wants the pipe character should write to HTC and tell them so. There are spare keys on the second screen of symbols so its not as if they dont have space to add it.