This program is meant to demonstrate the ability to open, process and display texts in unicode format with director. This is done with the help of flash (for reading the code and display) and javascript, which is available as a second script language in director MX 2004.
As you can see (at least at the sample screenshots include in the \screenshot directory), this really works. But it may still fail on an end users computer.

Because you need a unicode font, too.

This version of the demo shows the broadest range of different languages including 中文 (Chinese),  русски (Russian), Հայերեն (Armenian), ქართულად (Georgian), हिन्दी (Hindi) or ଉଡିଯା (Oriya) et.al. and it needs a certain True Type Font to display them all, named  Arial Unicode MS and included as an optional install with MS Office 2000. You will find it as  arialuni.ttf in the archive  OFFICE1.CAB  of the CD01 of the office 200 install CDs.
This font is a rather large file, about 24MB and apparently is the largest collection of unicoded glyphs available.

If you have that font installed or can achieve it, this version of the demo will work for you.
If not, you may see just boxes for many languages with the indian languages failing almost all. 

Some of the test languages are right-to-left and you will see that they are displayed left-to-right instead. This is a known problem which remains to be solved, there are workarounds to invert the ordering of glyphs but none of these were implemented in this demo.

There is another version of this demo available which uses a shareware font file (code2000) to display.