http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout Hypothetically you could construct a language where the glyph

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_text_layout Hypothetically you could construct a language where the glyphs are easy to generate procedurally on the fly by people who are fluent in that language, but who's full space of possible glyphs is staggeringly massive. Suppose a language with tens or hundreds of thousands of "base" glyphs, but with a unique variant on each glyph depending on what is to the left and right of it. With that alone, for N base glyphs, you could have N^2 variants of each glyph. I don't know if that sort of language exists. I don't see any reason why it couldn't though.