12. An image rendering engine, comprising; a processor; a memory coupled to the processor; a display device coupled to the processor; a text string lookup table stored in the memory that includes a set of glyphs and one or more sections of encoding data, wherein each glyph is stored as a field of pixels defining a displayable image associated with a text character, and wherein each section of encoding data defines a text string of two or more text characters to be rendered in an image, wherein each section of encoding data includes two or more sets of character encoding data with each set of character encoding data including first encoding data defining information about a position of a particular text character in the text string from which the center position of the particular text character can be determined and second encoding data defining a reference to one of the glyphs to define the identity of the particular text character in the text string; and a routine, stored in the memory, that executes on the processor to read the first and second encoding data of a particular set of character encoding data for a text character to determine a position of one or more pixels stored with a glyph associated with the text character within the text string to be rendered in an image.
12. An image rendering engine, comprising; a processor; a memory coupled to the processor; a display device coupled to the processor; a text string lookup table stored in the memory that includes a set of glyphs and one or more sections of encoding data, wherein each glyph is stored as a field of pixels defining a displayable image associated with a text character, and wherein each section of encoding data defines a text string of two or more text characters to be rendered in an image, wherein each section of encoding data includes two or more sets of character encoding data with each set of character encoding data including first encoding data defining information about a position of a particular text character in the text string from which the center position of the particular text character can be determined and second encoding data defining a reference to one of the glyphs to define the identity of the particular text character in the text string; and a routine, stored in the memory, that executes on the processor to read the first and second encoding data of a particular set of character encoding data for a text character to determine a position of one or more pixels stored with a glyph associated with the text character within the text string to be rendered in an image. 14. The image rendering engine of claim 12 , including a further routine stored in the memory that executes on the processor to render pixels located at one or more positions within the field of pixels of one of the glyphs at a particular position within an image on the display device based on the first encoding data defining the location of the center position of the text character referenced by the second encoding data.