A recording device is made to record text after suitably correlating universal character code characters to font data that is actually stored in the printer. A printer 20 stores a plurality of code pages CP each storing font data for a plurality of characters that is used when recording text on a recording medium. Based on the plural code pages CP stored by the printer 20, a character code conversion table 18 that stores Unicode characters correlated to information identifying a code page CP containing font data corresponding to the Unicode character and information denoting the storage address of the font data on the code page CP is created or updated.