Patent ID: 8069028

Claim:
A method of enabling input into a handheld electronic device having an input apparatus, an output apparatus and a processor, the handheld electronic device of a type having available therein a plurality of input method languages and a text disambiguation function structured to employ an operative one of the plurality of the input method languages, the input apparatus having a number of input members, at least some of the input members each having assigned thereto a plurality of linguistic elements, the method comprising: inputting an actuation of one or more of the input members; detecting as an ambiguous input the actuation of one or more of the input members; employing an operative input method language to output a plurality of language objects that correspond with the ambiguous input; outputting at a location adjacent to the plurality of language objects an indicator specifying the operative input method language being used by the text disambiguation function; enabling the indicator to be selected in lieu of one of the plurality of language objects; and upon the indicator being selected in lieu of one of the plurality of language objects, enabling a selection of one of a plurality of alternate indicators adjacent to the indicator specifying an alternate operative input method, wherein the selection of one of the plurality of alternate indicators is enabled while the inputting an actuation of one or more of the input members is ongoing.