1. A system providing simultaneous display of characters in multiple languages, the system comprising a main unit having a first memory, the first memory including character data stored in a plurality of languages in which a portion of the character data in a first language corresponds to another portion of the character data in a second language, the portion of the character data in the first language and the portion of the character data in the second language being stored in the first memory at memory locations having an offset value from each other.