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Where is an Emacs that can handle Semitic (right-to-left) alphabets?

April 26, 2017alphabets Emacs right-to-left Semitic

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Where is an Emacs that can handle Semitic (right-to-left) alphabets?

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Emacs 20 and later supports Hebrew characters (ISO 8859-8), but does not yet support right-to-left character entry and display. Joel M. Hoffman has written a Lisp package called hebrew.el that allows right-to-left editing of Hebrew. It reportedly works out of the box with Emacs 19, but requires patches for Emacs 18. Write to Joel if you want the patches or package.

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Emacs supports Hebrew characters (ISO 8859-8) since version 20, but does not yet support right-to-left character entry and display. The emacs-bidi mailing list discusses development of support for this feature.