Right-to-left alphabets - GNU Emacs FAQ

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

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.