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  Code2000 and shareware, It can be downloaded from this page:
http://home.att.net/~jameskass/

This font has about 3MB and well over 30.000 glyphs, the second 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. 

Comparing this ttf with the Arial it is apparent that readability is less good with code2000 and support for the sino-tibetan languages seems to be less strong. Tibetan missing completly and Chinese showing 2 errors in the short test sentence (and both of the lacking characters are frequently used in Chinese).

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 Arial Unicode MS to display.