8. An electronic device comprising: a processor apparatus comprising a processor and a memory; an input apparatus structured to provide input to the processor apparatus; an output apparatus structured to receive output signals from the processor apparatus; and the memory having stored therein a number of routines which, when executed on the processor, cause the electronic device to perform operations comprising: determining that a text input is at least possibly misspelled, the text input comprising one of a diacritical form and a non-diacritical form of each of a number of characters; generating a number of proposed spelling corrections of the text input comprising a first proposed spelling correction comprising at least one diacritical difference from the number of characters of the text input and a second proposed spelling correction comprising at least one base character difference from the number of characters of the text input; outputting the number of proposed spelling corrections of the text input; and providing the first proposed spelling correction as a preferred proposed spelling correction over the second proposed spelling correction, the at least one diacritical difference comprising at least one of: the text input having a non-diacritical form of a character and a corresponding character of the preferred proposed spelling correction being a diacritical form thereof, the text input having a diacritical form of a character and a corresponding character of the preferred proposed spelling correction being a non-diacritical form thereof and, the text input having a diacritical form of a character and a corresponding character of the preferred proposed spelling correction being a different diacritical form thereof.
10. The electronic device of claim 8 wherein the operations further comprise outputting in a list the number of proposed spelling corrections, and outputting the preferred proposed spelling correction at a position of preference in the list.