Techniques for providing a split keyboard on an electronic device with different languages as input. The techniques include providing a first virtual keyboard and first input method editor (IME) configured in a first language on the electronic device, detecting or identifying, from the first virtual keyboard by the first IME, a character input string of a second language different from the first language, and, in response to detecting or identifying the character input string of the second language, providing a second virtual keyboard and second IME configured in the second language, displaying the second virtual keyboard alongside the first virtual keyboard on the electronic device, and offloading processing of the character input string of the second language from the first IME to the second IME. In this way, user experience while providing characters of different languages on an electronic device can be facilitated and improved.