an expamle of difficulty in globalosation

I was just thinking about the globalisation. I have noticed that globalisation has not only started in the recent decades.

We Japanese traditionally write our language vertically and newspapers or novels are still in that manner. More than half a century ago, we also used to write in the opposite direction as we do now - from right to left.

Now, arises a very big question.

How the hell are arabic people using the PC's!?