It is an object to provide an electronic apparatus that can accurately carry out displaying of a character shape and sorting of characters by the number of strokes even in the case where character sequences expressed in the Unicode include different characters depending on the language. The electronic apparatus (1) is provided with a character shape saving means (12) that saves character shape information in a plurality of languages described by the Unicode; a judging means (7) that extracts one character from character sequences comprised of characters described by the Unicode, judges whether or not the extracted character is a language unique character only included in a specific language, and specifies that, if the extracted character is the language unique character, the language to which the character sequence belongs is a language to which the language unique character belongs; and display means that displays the character sequence by the character shape information saved at the character shape saving means in the specified language.