1. A method of managing the printing of characters by a printing device, said method comprising: providing said printing device a first font file storing first glyph data corresponding to a first set of characters, characters of said first set of characters being identified by double-byte words; providing said printing device a second font file storing second glyph data corresponding to a second set of characters, characters of said second set of characters being identified by single-byte words, wherein: upon said printing device receiving a double-byte word identifying a character within said first font file, determining whether the received double-byte word identifies a character that is also in said second set of characters; if not, using the received double-byte word to extract first glyph data from the first font file; and if so, using the received double-byte word to extract second glyph data from the second font file.
13. The method of claim 1 further comprising: printing the character corresponded to by the extracted first or second glyph data, said extracted first or second glyph data containing information for graphically recreating the character corresponded to.