Nowadays, pen-based mobile computing devices, such as personal digital assistants (PDA) andrnother handheld devices are becoming popular. Because of their personal nature, such devices arernexpected to conform well to the cultural expectations of their users. However, such devicesrnoriginally do not support languages that use Ethiopic scripts for writing, and this makes the usersrnto communicate with the device in a foreign language. Thus, localization of these devices to thosernlanguages that use Ethiopic script is crucial for getting benefits from the device and for thernutilization of the devices for local applications.rnAs online handwriting recognition is one of the basic features of pen-computing devices, thisrnresearch proposes a model for multi-script (Latin and Ethiopic script) text editing based on onlinernhandwriting recognition. The designed model aims to facilitate usersâ€™ task such as note taking,rnmemo handling, communicating and saving messages with their language of preference. Tornreveal the model, a text editing system is developed, and an experiment is conducted to evaluaternthe proposed model. The experimental result shows that the system has a recognition accuracy ofrn88.03% for Amharic basic characters and the usability of the system evaluated to be 93.34%. Thernexperimental result also shows that a better performance can be attained when the users getrnexperience of using the stylus (electronic pen).rnKey words: A model for multi-script text editing, Ethiopic Online HandwritingrnRecognition, Ethiopic and Latin script based text editing, multi-script text editing forrnPDA.