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'''Uniscribe''' is the [[Microsoft Windows]] set of services for rendering [[Unicode]]-encoded text, supporting [[complex text layout]]. It is implemented in the [[dynamic link library]] {{mono|USP10.DLL}}.  Uniscribe was released with [[Windows 2000]] and [[Internet Explorer]] 5.0.  In addition, the [[Windows CE]] platform has supported Uniscribe since version 5.0.

"USP" is an [[initialism]] for '''U'''nicode '''S'''cripts '''P'''rocessor. Its features include:
* arranging input text from the input sequence to visual sequence;
* substituting glyphs according to context (e.g., different forms of Arabic characters);
* ordering displayed text based on text flow direction, such as left-to-right or right-to left, horizontal or vertical.

Although Uniscribe continues to be maintained as of 2021, its intended replacement [[DirectWrite]], which has more features, was introduced with [[Windows 7]].<ref>{{cite web
|title=Windows 7: Introducing Direct2D and DirectWrite
|url=http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/pdc2008/PC18
|date=2008-10-29
|website=Channel 9
|series=PDC2008
|publisher=Microsoft Corp.
|access-date=2021-06-01
}}</ref>