DISPLAY DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM

To provide a display device for enabling preferable Japanese hyphenation while suppressing restriction due to a character code system.A font data memory unit (50) stores font data which contains a plurality of font records each containing font information for displaying a character and line feed control information for controlling line feed conducted before and/or after the character. A character string display unit (54) displays a character string based on the font information relevant to all or some of the plurality of font records. A line feed control unit (52) determines a line feed position in the character string being displayed by the character string display unit (54) based on line feed control information relevant to characters included in the character string.