The WM5 keyboard has those great shift modes that give you foreign
vowels and diacritics.

The point is, they are SHIFT modes--you turn them on WHEN DESIRED.

Seemingly not so with the Block Recognizer. My letter strokes are
occasionally interpreted as a non-English vowel.

That is inconsistent with the keyboard's operation, an inconvenience,
obligatory mfr.-induced noise in the user's input, and ergo wrong.

After all, the Recognizer has two separate areas for letters and
numerals. Specialized input should be segregated as well.

The PPC's Settings for Block Organizer has no functionality. (There's
the Options button which, instead of being disabled, MS cheerfully
takes up more memory by keeping it enabled then displaying "There are
no options" on tapping it.)

So is there a way to enforce English only? (If so, cancel above rant.)

I'm using an iPAQ rx1950 running WM5.

Thanks.

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baobob@my-deja.com of http://groups.google.com wrote:

>The WM5 keyboard has those great shift modes that give you foreign
>vowels and diacritics.
>
>The point is, they are SHIFT modes--you turn them on WHEN DESIRED.
>
>Seemingly not so with the Block Recognizer. My letter strokes are
>occasionally interpreted as a non-English vowel.
Go look at input settings from settings on the start menu. In WM2003 You
can turn accented letters on or off which will also turn off non-English
vowels.

>After all, the Recognizer has two separate areas for letters and
>numerals. Specialized input should be segregated as well.
No it shouldn't. If I had a separate area for writing umlauted vowels and
s-zets, you would be inconvenienced by less space to write other letters.

>I'm using an iPAQ rx1950 running WM5.
If you really can't do it, then WM5 is the problem. So many little
downgrades here and there compared to WM2003. Very bad move by Microsoft,
since I for one tried a WM5 device and sent it back, because it was worse
than what I already have.
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Mr. Peters:

Thanks much for reply.

To repeat, as far as I can see, WM5's Block Recognizer's
misinterpretation of a percentage of my input as wrong umlaut and
foreign characters CANNOT be turned off.

WM2003 is older than WM5, right? So, if you are saying that Microsoft
is in the business of REMOVING features from its OS's over time--even
as, illogically, processor speed & memory capacities increase; if you
returned your WM5 device as a piece of junk; and if I'm not missing
some facts, in which I case I wholly retract the following, then I
unfortunately say, not for the first time:

Goddamn Microsoft. Oops--I mean Mîcrosœft.

(N.B. When I opined that umlauts should be "segregated," I didn't
intend to mean another input slate area, in addition to ABC & 123. I
meant a Settings option just like the one you say existed in WM2003.
Sorry 'bout that.)

And thanks again.

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