10. The method of claim 9 , wherein: said first font is identified by a first font ID and a first status indicator identifying it as a subset of characters; said second font is identified by said first font ID and a second status indicator identifying it a: not sub-set of characters; said third font is identified by a second font ID and a third status indicator identifying it as a subset of characters; and said fourth font is identified by said second font ID and a fourth status indicator identifying it as riot a sub-set of characters.
9. The method of claim 7 , further comprising: (e) activating a fourth font from said font-storage memory by storing a fourth font location of said fourth font in a fourth font-access memory, said fourth font including a fourth plurality of characters each identified by a fourth corresponding character index, said fourth font being a fourth character set; wherein: said third character set is a sub-set of said fourth character set, and the third character index of each character within said third character set matches the fourth character index of its corresponding character within said fourth character set; said second character set is a sub-set of said fourth character set, and the second character index of each character within said second character set matches the fourth character index of its corresponding character within said fourth character set.