Some writing systems (scripts) have been represented in “hacked fonts” by changing the glyphs of characters in ASCII or Arabic or other ranges. For example, the shape of the glyph for “a” could be changed to a Burmese character, “b” to another, etc. Applying the font while typing on a QWERTY keyboard let people create documents in non-standardized scripts. This works great as long as the font can be applied correctly to the text, as in a shared Word document. It has been used for many indigenous languages, especially by linguists and other academics for documenting languages around the world.