Bitstream Panorama: a global text composition engine

Complex Scripts: Issues for Worldwide Developers
Companies today are thinking in global terms. Manufacturers are developing one-size-fits-all products with the same look-and-feel, but shipped and sold to all areas of the world. Products must support languages in all countries they're sold in, or must have the ability to be upgraded in the future. What companies want today is a solution for: any device, any application, in any language.

Most languages are straightforward and can be composed and rendered without having to consider writing direction (left-right, right-left), language rules, character substitution and positioning, etc.

But note that character substitutions are possible in the above languages, as shown on the next page.