Patent ID: 8610602

Claim:
A method of enabling input on a handheld electronic device, the handheld electronic device having a language option selector configured for selecting, among a plurality of languages, a language for disambiguating ambiguous input, the method comprising: detecting an ambiguous input; outputting a word corresponding with the ambiguous input; outputting a language output indicative of a language used to interpret the ambiguous input; outputting a first indicator to highlight the word; outputting a second indicator to replace the first indicator and to highlight the language output based, at least in part, on a first language selection input; outputting one or more additional outputs indicative of one or more additional languages based, at least in part, on a second language selection input associated with the highlighted language output; and detecting, using a processor, a selected language from the one or more additional languages based, at least in part, on a third language selection input associated with the one or more additional outputs, wherein the selected language is used for disambiguation.