Font access, registration, display and printing method and a method for processing electronic documents having variant fonts

A system for managing coined oriental language characters, the system comprising:

• means for selecting a regular oriental character;
• means for coining a coined character by amending the regular oriental character with an amending oriental character;
• means for storing and cataloging the coined character according to a regular character value associated with the regular oriental character and an ordinal value associated with the coined character, such that multiple coined characters are catalogued under the same regular oriental character;
• and
• means for storing in a primary index table the regular character value and a pointer associated with the regular character value, the pointer pointing to an entry data in a secondary index, the entry data including a pointer to a target character stored in a character data file, the entry data also including a second value, the second value being such that:
• if the second value is the same as the ordinal, then the target character is the coined character;
• if the second value is not the same as the ordinal value, then the second value is used to point to a next entry data catalogued under the same regular oriental character, the next entry data pointing to another next entry data until an entry data having a second value that is the same as the ordinal is located, wherein the target character is the coined character;
• and
• if the second value is null, then the target character is the regular oriental character.

A computer program product, residing on a computer usable medium, for managing coined oriental language characters, the computer program product comprising:

• program code for selecting a regular oriental character;
• program code for coining a coined character by amending the regular oriental character with an amending oriental character;
• program code for storing and cataloging the coined character according to a regular character value associated with the regular oriental character and an ordinal value associated with the coined character, such that multiple coined characters are catalogued under the same regular oriental character;
• and
• program code for storing in a primary index table the regular character value and a pointer associated with the regular character value, the pointer pointing to an entry data in a secondary index, the entry data including a pointer to a target character stored in a character data file, the entry data also including a second value, the second value being such that:
• if the second value is the same as the ordinal, then the target character is the coined character;
• if the second value is not the same as the ordinal value, then the second value is used to point to a next entry data catalogued under the same regular oriental character, the next entry data pointing to another next entry data until an entry data having a second value that is the same as the ordinal is located, wherein the target character is the coined character;
• and
• if the second value is null, then the target character is the regular oriental character.