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Appendix C
50
Using Diacritical Marks
The European version of the StreetPilot 2610/2650 supports diacritical marks commonly used in
many European languages. Diacritical marks are added to letters to indicate a special phonetic value that
distinguishes it from an otherwise identical letter. The following letter/diacritic combinations, and special
characters, are supported in your StreetPilot 2610/2650:
À Á Â Ã Ä Å Ç È
É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï Ð
Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Ø Ù
Ú Û Ü Ý Ÿ Þ ß
Ligatures are not displayed, but are instead converted to separate characters. For example, “Æ” or “æ”
appears on the StreetPilot 2610/2650 as “AE”. Similarly, “Œ” or “œ” appears on the StreetPilot 2610/2650
as “OE”. The “ß” character is displayed as “SS” on the StreetPilot 2610/2650.
Letters with diacritical marks are sorted together with those without diacritics. For example, the “Ç”
is sorted in the StreetPilot 2610/2650’s alphabet as a “C”, and the “Д is sorted as a “D”. This means that
sorted lists may contain a mix of diacritic marks for a given letter. Also note that the “Þ” character appears
at the end of the alphabet on the StreetPilot 2610/2650.
When searching for a city or point of interest (POI) that includes these special characters in its name,
your search proceeds as if the base letter and the same letter with diacritical marks are identical. In other
words, when searching for a city/POI that includes E, È, É, Ê or Ë in the name, simply enter “E” or which-
ever diacritic version appears and proceed to the next character in the name. As you continue to enter
additional characters, the appropriate character appears when the correct city/POI name is selected. You
can observe this by using the FIND key to select the following cities:
To FIND Västerås, Sweden:
1. Press the unit or remote FIND key then select ‘Cities’.
As you continue entering each character, previously
entered characters may change to appear with or
without diacritical marks. Once the desired name is
displayed select ‘OK’, then select the desired name to
display an information page.
When fi nding cities, enter each character using the
base letter (or whatever corresponding letter with
diacritical marks appears), then proceed to the next
character.
Using Diacritical Marks
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