1. A method executed on a mobile computing device, the method comprising: detecting a plurality of strokes set forth on a touch-sensitive screen of the mobile computing device, wherein the plurality of strokes correspond to a sequence of handwritten characters that is desirably displayed on the display screen of the mobile computing device, wherein a first stroke corresponding to a first character in the sequence of handwritten characters and a second stroke corresponding to a second character in the sequence of characters are set forth in an overlapping region of the touch-sensitive screen, the first character being adjacent to the second character in the sequence of handwritten characters, and wherein multiple strokes are received to represent at least one of the first character or the second character; responsive to the detecting of the plurality of strokes on the touch-sensitive display screen of the mobile computing device, automatically identifying that the first stroke corresponds to the first character and the second stroke corresponds to the second character; and presenting the sequence of handwritten characters on the touch-sensitive screen of the mobile computing device.