Abstract: According to the invention, it is possible to a void the inconvenience of repetitively inputing the same character; a desired character can be repetitively outputted by a simple operation. Particularly, in a case of inputting a character group by means of a handwriting character recognition unit, each time characters such as “0 (zero)” and “O (oh)” or the like having similar shapes are repetitively inputted, an operation to select a desired character from “0 (zero)” and “O (oh)” is always needed, so that operability is very poor. When a complicated figure or image is inputted, an operation to repetitively input such figure or image is troublesome.