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My 66s (firmware 7.20) is set to Italian language.
Today I've been unable to insert an accented letter in the track name. Apparently they are no more present in the keyboard. In the past (at least with 4.20) the letters were present.

Am I missing something or is it a bug? Can someone confirm?

When set to Italian, the device should be able to handle at least this letters: àèéìòù

That is not the Italian keyboard shown in your screen capture there.

To change to the Italian keyboard, from any keyboard screen, press (Menu) > [Keyboard Language] > [Italian] to have access to the diacritic letters you desire.

See GPSrChive > GPSMAP 66 > Operation > Keyboard for additional information.

Thank you for pointing out the setting, I wasn't aware of that. I thought the layout was linked to the active language.

My problem now is that the layout setting isn't saved between power cycles. That's probably why it switched to english.

Excellent observation.

Posted as GPSrChive > GPSMAP 66 > Common Issues > Bug 124.

We also tested multiple additional Garmin units today, and only the Oregon 7x0, RINO 75x, and eTrex Touch passed the test. Every other model (including GPSMAP 62/64/65/66sr/66i/78 and Montana 6x0/7x0 and eTrex 32x) failed to retain the user selected keyboard language over a power cycle, just the same as the GPSMAP 66s/st failed.

Yes, it's a bug observed starting from firmware 7.20. Thanks for placing it on the common issues page.

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987 - Looks like I forgot about your post... will link it to the bug report also!