known but for displaying the characters used in various countries there have been required a character generator and a control circuit of a very large capacity for this reason it has been a common practice to mount a character generator suitable for the country of destination although this complicates the specifications of the typewriter and necessitates the operation of replacement work thus the present embodiment provides an electronic typewriter capable of displaying the characters of various countries without increasing the capacity of the memory now reference is made to fig4 1 and 47 2 showing the basic structure of such an electronic typewriter in which a keyboard 10 is provided with character keys 10a common to various countries and with character keys 10h exclusive to the country of destination the entered key signals for printing are first displayed on a display unit 9 there are provided an oscillator 90 for generating a basic frequency for dynamic drive of the display unit 9 a counter 91 of a capacity of the number of digits of the display unit 9 a decoder 92 for generating a digit signal corresponding to the count of said counter 91 a digit driver 93 and a multiplexer 102 for supplying the count of the counter 91 or a signal supplied from the mpu 44 through an address bus ab to a display buffer 101 as an address signal thereto said display buffer 101 is capable of storing the character signals entered from the keyboard 10 at least for the capacity of the display unit 9 for example 20 characters by designating the display buffer 101 from the address decoder 105 the multiplexer 102 provides the signal of the address.