>Is this also an GNU/Linux/X11 term or even a general term? I thought
>*complex script* is only a Microsoft term. Specially since you cannot
>define what a complex script is.

It's not just a Microsoft term, and while the definition may be hard
to agree on, it's not that hard to come up with one, say: one where
a computer can't take a glyph for each character (with one to one
correspondence) and paste it to the right of the last character, and
produce reasonable output. I think most people would call the Indic
scripts and Arabic complex scripts; this definition includes Hebrew
and Thai and excludes CJK languages. 

Of course, fine typography for most languages is complex, and Latin
and Korean and other scripts usually aren't complex, but can be complex
for certain languages or texts.
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