Information processing apparatus, display method, and storage medium

A display method executed by an information processing apparatus including an input unit configured to accept input by a user, a display unit configured to display an image including a character string, a user language holding unit configured to hold a display language associated with user identification information, a device language holding unit configured to hold a display language set in the information processing apparatus by default, and a font data holding unit configured to hold font data of individual languages, the method comprising:

• setting a font priority list which represents a priority order of font data to be used for rendering the character string and which has the most preferential font data corresponding to the display language which is associated with the user identification information input by the input unit and which is held by the user language holding unit and the second most preferential font data corresponding to the display language held by the device language holding unit;
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• rendering the character string in accordance with the font priority list and the font data.

A storage medium which stores a computer program which causes a computer including an input unit configured to accept input by a user, a display unit configured to display an image including a character string, a user language holding unit configured to hold a display language associated with user identification information, and a device language holding unit configured to hold a display language set in the information processing apparatus by default to function as:

• a font priority list control unit configured to set a font priority list which represents a priority order of font data to be used for rendering the character string and which has the most preferential font data corresponding to the display language which is associated with the user identification information input by the input unit and which is held by the user language holding unit and the second most preferential font data corresponding to the display language held by the device language holding unit;
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• a font rendering processing unit configured to render the character string in accordance with the font priority list and the font data.