Abstract: In a symbol-display system which includes a keyboard for entering codes related to the symbols to be displayed and a memory for storing the codes associated with a line of symbols to be displayed, the symbols being from a font which includes at least one character represented by a set of symbols wherein the actual symbol to be used of the set is determined by the presence or absence on the displayed line of a space symbol immediately adjacent the character, there is disclosed the method of loading the codes in the memory for the display of a line of symbols by providing the keyboard with a key for each character that may be displayed as one of the symbols of the associated set wherein each of the keys represents a base symbol of the set, generating when one of the keys is depressed a base coded-combination of bits and modifying the base coded-combination of bits by changing at least one of the two least significant bits when any immediately adjacent key generated character is a space symbol.