9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the one or more stroke disambiguation rules include a rule to correct for one or more omitted strokes in a stroke sequence.
8. A method for disambiguation of stroke input in an electronic device, the method comprising: receiving a sequence of input strokes; applying one or more stroke disambiguation rules to the received sequence of input strokes to generate an updated sequence of input strokes, wherein the disambiguation rules include a rule to correct for an incorrect stroke in the received sequence of input strokes based on similarity between the incorrect stroke and a correct stroke; and transmitting a signal representing the updated sequence of input strokes; wherein applying the one or more stroke disambiguation rules comprises automatically applying the one or more stroke disambiguation rules to the received sequence of input strokes if less than a required minimum number of candidates is predicted for the received sequence of input strokes.