1. A method of processing input on a mobile electronic device that comprises a processor, a display, and an input apparatus having a plurality of input elements, at least some of the input elements each having assigned thereto a number of characters within a given alphabet, at least some of the input elements each having as said number of characters a plurality of characters within the given alphabet assigned thereto, at least some of the input elements each being actuatable to provide an input to the processor of an assigned character, the processor having executable thereon at least a first routine that performs a transliteration operation wherein a number of characters input in the given alphabet are transliterated into a number of characters in another alphabet, the method comprising: detecting a series of inputs comprising a current input; detecting an occurrence of a finalization event and, responsive thereto: finalizing the current input by detecting the current input as an input of a particular character from among a plurality of characters assigned to a particular input element, and subjecting at least the particular character to the transliteration operation; and outputting at least one of the particular character and a transliteration of at least the particular character in the another alphabet.