9. A peripheral device comprising: a memory having stored therein a collection of multiple text items arranged in multiple sets of text items and in multiple groups of text items; and for a respective group of text items, a respective code item; the memory stores a sort key that has values that designate a predefined order of the text items in each set; wherein the sort key is appended to the text items and comprises at least one character with a value within the Private Use range of the Unicode format, and; wherein the multiple collections of text items comprises country names in a respective language, wherein a group comprises the name of a country in different languages and wherein a set comprises names of multiple countries, in one language.
13. A device according to claim 9 , wherein the text items are arranged in a table structure with columns, rows and cells, wherein a set is arranged in a column of the table, a group is arranged in a row and the cells of the table comprises the text items.