HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATION OF TEXT INPUT PROVIDING ARTIFICIAL VARIANTS COMPRISED OF CHARACTERS IN A CORE ALPHABET

摘要

A handheld electronic device includes a reducedQWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguationsoftware that is operable to disambiguate text input. Inaddition to identifying and outputting representations of languageobjects that are stored in the memory and that correspondwith a text input, the device is able to generate artificialvariants in certain circumstances. The artificial variantscomprise characters within a core alphabet of the device andare free of extended characters that may otherwise be activeon the device.