The invention relates to a system, method and computer program product for compressing and/or displaying digital data. The system includes a storage medium for storing a plurality of instruction sequences representing displayable characters, a display for displaying these characters, and a receiver for receiving at least a first code symbol being assigned to the first one of the instruction sequences. The first instruction sequence represents the first character displayable in a bitmap, wherein first instruction sequence defines a line pattern. Decomposing, storing and restoring a Chinese character, e.g., into a line pattern is advantageous as being memory saving and fast. The invention is particularly applicable for mobile phones having restricted memory space.