Software for facilitating communication in different languages and for universal language support, namely, for font compression of bitmap and outline font data and rasterization of that data; for enabling text input and display engine comprising virtual keyboards, front-end processors, contextual processors and text layout engine; for producing high quality type in low memory and low bandwidth environments; for enabling compression algorithms; for outline and bitmap fonts; for parsing multi-lingual text strings and files; for converting multi-lingual text into device-independent image files; for hosting multi-lingual email and chat applications across different languages