For Rogue Wave Views Bidi to operate correctly, the operating system and the windowing system installed on your system must support Arabic.

Rogue Wave Views Bidi has been designed for the following two target platforms:

The UNIX version is built on top of the Bidi library developed by IBM and is supplied with the standard package of AIX 5.1 and higher. In the remainder of this document, we refer to this library as IBM-Bidi.

Rogue Wave Views Bidi for Windows platforms is built on the version of Windows that integrates Arabic support. The display and shaping of character strings are handled by the system on which Rogue Wave Views Bidi runs.