9. The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying the characters comprises converting each converted character into an encoding and indexing into a font file using the encoding to obtain the character.
1. A method comprising: receiving a file including characters in a computer system; converting the characters of said file to a first code format having a double-byte length if the characters are of a first type; converting the characters of said file to a second code format having a multiple double-byte length if said characters are of a second type; and displaying the characters of the file using the first code format or the second code format.