FONT PROVIDING SYSTEM, FONT SWITCHING SYSTEM, CHARACTER RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, FONT MANAGING SERVER, AND CLIENT THEREOF, FONT PROVIDING METHOD, FONT SWITCHING METHOD, CHARACTER CODE CONVERTING METHOD, CHARACTER RETRIEVING METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a large number of characters usable with a unified font in a client. SOLUTION: In a font managing system 110, a plurality of fonts prepared for every purpose of use are managed and corresponding to a request from a user terminal 201, a correspondent font file is transmitted. In the user terminal 201, the downloaded font file is stored corresponding to its own character codes. Besides, a character which is not provided in the font managing system 110, is ordered from the user terminal 201 to the font managing system 110. In a terminal for external character management, the ordered character is prepared and this is registered in the font managing server 110.