hjc> I do know a thing or too about languages, Most latin based hjc> languages would be the easiest to do b/c you dont need any hjc> special characters, except maybe an accent mark here and there. The "accent mark here or there" is not really trivial sometimes (what if there's more than one, ...). Designing a proper Unicode input/output engine is (a) necessary, (b) tough and (c) an R2 issue (but no R3 issue, in my opinion). The question is what level of support FreeType offers already. hjc> But with russian that is a different ball park, the alphabete is hjc> a bit different but should be easily done. Well, OpenBeOS is a Unicode-based system. If there is support for Latin, then rendering of Cyrillic is not a problem at all. It's really only different letters. hjc> Now the phoenician based languages e.g. arabic and hebrew those hjc> are the tough ones b/c of the alphabete so someone would need to hjc> know the workings of one or the other for it to be localized. There's even more difficult cases (Indic scripts). For Arabic you basically need support for right-to-left input/output and glyph replacement in the font output engine. Indic scripts need glyph reordering, too. Indic scripts include Thai, which you mentioned under Far Eastern; while Thailand may be in the Far East, Thai script is an Indic script and a more difficult one. hjc> But other than the languages that are not roman based then you hjc> shouldnt run into any problems. Well, these non-Roman languages happen to be used in a number of nations that are heavily into computing and that have close to 2.5 billion native speakers, put together... hjc> So it can be done it would just take some time finding hjc> the people who know how the languages work and if needed to hjc> design a font for the different script styles like with the hjc> far-east languages (japanese, chinese, korean, and thai if there hjc> are more please forgive me.) But yes it can be done. Hm... If there's anyone volunteering to design a CJK font with the 2.500 or so essential glyphs for Korean and the 10.000 or so essential glyphs for Chinese and Japanese, I'd like to meet him/her :-)) Philipp