Text rendering on bare-metal x86, trying to avoid assumptions of English and left-to-right order. 2-minute video: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-2min-2021-01-12
Just 1024x768 pixels, just 256 colors. Just one fixed-width bitmap font, no bold/italics, no anti-aliasing. BUT I'd like for anybody in the world to easily be able to customize it to their language.
Project page: https://github.com/akkartik/mu