METHOD FOR DIACRITICAL SELECTION AND TEXT DISAMBIGUATION.

摘要

A method and apparatus of enabling input on a handheld electronic device including the following steps: detecting as a first input a number of input member actuations comprising an actuation of an input member having assigned thereto both a non-diacritical version and a diacritical version; responsive to said detecting of the first input, displaying a linguistic element list for selection by a user comprising the non-diacritical version and at least one diacritical version; detecting as a second input a selection by the user of one linguistic element of the linguistic element list; and responsive to said detecting of the second input, displaying a variant list for selection by the user and comprising a number of variants, at least some of the variants each comprising the selected linguistic element of the second input.