+2012-07-28 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+ * faq.texi (Right-to-left alphabets): Update for Emacs 24.
+ (Bug#12073)
+
2012-06-19 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
* Makefile.in: Rename infodir to buildinfodir throughout. (Bug#11737)
@cindex Right-to-left alphabets
@cindex Hebrew, handling with Emacs
@cindex Semitic alphabets
-@cindex Arabic alphabets
-@cindex Bidirectional text
+@cindex Arabic
+@cindex Farsi
+@cindex bidirectional scripts
-Emacs supports Hebrew characters (ISO 8859-8) since version 20, but does
-not yet support right-to-left character entry and display. The
-@uref{http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi, emacs-bidi
-mailing list} discusses development of support for this feature.
+Emacs supports display and editing of bidirectional scripts, such as
+Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, since version 24.1.
+@xref{New in Emacs 24, bidirectional display}.
@node How to add fonts