1. A tangible computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions that when executed via a microprocessor perform a method, comprising: providing a combined handwriting recognizer that supports both left-to-right and right-to-left language recognition and is configured to make an identification of text received by the combined handwriting recognizer using a combined dictionary, with the combined dictionary comprising a first dictionary from a language written in a left-to-right direction and a second dictionary from a language written in a right-to-left direction, the direction of entries in at least one of the first dictionary and the second dictionary reversed such that terms appear backwards.