Soft keyboard on your phone
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The soft keyboard is available on when you’re in an input box on the touchscreen of Cisco Video Phone 8875 or Cisco Desk Phone 9871. Compared to the physical keypad, the soft keyboard speeds up the process of typing names and addresses.

The following table lists the functional keys on the keyboard.

Table 1. Special keys on the soft keyboard
KeyDescription

the caps key

the caps key

Caps key

Tap it to toggle between uppercase and lowercase letters.

the hide keyboard key

Hide keyboard key

Tap it to hide the soft keyboard.

To revoke the soft keyboard again, tap in the input box.

the delete key

Delete key

Tap it to delete your input by one character to the left of the insertion point.

the numeric key

The numeric and special characters key

Tap it to show the numeric keys and the special characters keys

the language key

Language key

The Language key isn't available when the phone language is set to English.

Tap it to switch the soft keyboard layout between English and the system-language.

Multilingual keyboard

The soft keyboard layout adjusts automatically to match the current system language. The keyboard supports the following 18 languages:

  • Arabic: ar_AR
  • Czech: cs_CZ
  • Danish: da_DK
  • Dutch: nl_NL
  • English: en_US and en_GB
  • French: fr_CA
  • French: fr_FR
  • German: de_DE
  • Hebrew: he_IL
  • Hungarian: hu_HU
  • Italian: it_IT
  • Norwegian: nb_NO
  • Polish: pl_PL
  • Portuguese: pt_PT
  • Spanish: es_ES
  • Swedish: sv_SE
  • Turkish: tr_TR
  • Ukrainian: uk_UA (supports both cyrillic and latin layout)

If you set your phone to a language that the soft keyboard doesn't support, the English keyboard is used instead. You can manully switch between the system language and English keyboard at any time by tapping the language key.

For languages that utilize diacritic marks or accents, press and hold the corresponding letter key. A pop-up menu will appear; slide your finger to select the desired character from the pop-up variants.

the screenshot for inputting accent letters

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