Providing suggestion lists for phonetic input

Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing suggestion lists for phonetic input. The system receives user input in a source language from an input device. The input is a partial phonetic representation in the source language of a character desired by a user in a destination language. Based on the user's input, a suggestion list is generated that includes a set of key/character combinations that can be pressed/entered on an input device in the source language to achieve at least one resulting character in the destination language. The suggestion list is dynamically generated based upon a prior usage history of the user. The suggestion list is displayed to the user on a display. The user can customize various suggestion list display settings. Upon generating the suggestion list, the display settings are retrieved, and the suggestion list is formatted according to the display settings.