Hindi writing often Given a user input in the form of an ink, i.e. a list of contains a connecting'Shirorekha' line and characters touch or pen strokes, output the textual interpretation can form larger structures (grapheme clusters) which of this input. A stroke is a sequence of points (x, y, t) influence the written shape of the components. Arabic with position (x, y) and timestamp t. is written right-to-left (with embedded left-to-right sequences Figure 1 illustrates example inputs to our online used for numbers or English names) and characters handwriting recognition system in different languages change shape depending on their position within and scripts. The left column shows examples in English a word. Emoji are non-text Unicode symbols that we with different writing styles, with different types also recognize. of content, and that may be written on one or multiple lines. The center column shows examples from Online handwriting recognition has recently been five different alphabetic languages similar in structure gaining importance for multiple reasons: (a) An increasing to English: German, Russian, Vietnamese, Greek, and number of people in emerging markets are obtaining Georgian. The right column shows scripts that are significantly access to computing devices, many exclusively using different from English: Chinese has a much mobile devices with touchscreens. Many of these users larger set of more complex characters, and users often have native languages and scripts that are not as easily overlap characters with one another. Korean, while an typed as English, e.g.