METHOD OF E-MAIL ADDRESS SEARCH AND E-MAIL ADDRESS TRANSLITERATION AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE

摘要

An improved method of transliterating non-Latin input within an e-mail address field (52) to the Latin equivalent. A routine in a handheld device (4) is structured to detect a triggering event that indicates an e-mail address (60) is being input into an e-mail address field (52). Fol-lowing the triggering event, both prior and subsequent input is transliterat-ed to Latin characters as these characters are required by Internet proto-cols. The transliteration routine may also be utilized to search an e-mail address book wherein names are recorded using both Latin and non-Latin characters.