Method and system for rendering diacritic characters

摘要

A method (300) and system (100) for enabling input of diacritic characters on a handheld electronic device. The method includes detecting an input associated with a selected key (302) and determining likelihood that the input reflects selection of a diacritic character (304). The time after which the set of possible diacritic characters that are utilized is rendered in response to a selected key being engaged in a press-and-hold operation (308, 310) is based on the determined likelihood (306).