4. The method of claim 2 wherein the received double-byte word is determined to identify a character from the second set of characters if the received double-byte word includes a null data byte.
4. The method of claim 2 wherein the received double-byte word is determined to identify a character from the second set of characters if the received double-byte word includes a null data byte. 8. The method of claim 4 wherein the multilingual characters include Chinese characters, Korean characters, or Japanese characters, or some combination thereof.