diff etc/NEWS @ 107646:dfdf14a6f5a0

Support MS-Windows build and reversed rows in GUI frames; add initial docs. doc/emacs/mule.texi (International): Mention support of bidirectional editing. (Bidirectional Editing): New section. etc/HELLO: Reorder Arabic and Hebrew into logical order, and insert RLM before the opening paren, to make the display more reasonable. Add setting for bidi-display-reordering in the local variables section. lisp/files.el: Make bidi-display-reordering safe variable for boolean values. src/xdisp (append_glyph): If the glyph row is reversed, prepend the glyph rather than appending it. src/makefile.w32-in (OBJ1): Add $(BLD)/bidi.$(O). ($(BLD)/bidi.$(O)): New target.

--- a/etc/NEWS	Sun Mar 28 11:18:10 2010 -0400
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Mon Mar 29 08:26:24 2010 -0400
@@ -36,6 +36,30 @@
 
 * Changes in Emacs 24.1
 
++++
+** Emacs now supports display and editing of bidirectional text.
+Warning: This is still very much experimental!  The existing support
+is minimal, and when it's turned on (see below), many features are
+likely to give unexpected results, or break, or even crash!  Use at
+your own risk!
+
+See the node "Bidirectional Editing" in the Emacs Manual for some
+initial documentation.
+
+To turn this on in any given buffer, set the buffer-local variable
+`bidi-display-reordering' to a non-nil value.  The default is nil.
+
+The buffer-local variable `bidi-paragraph-direction', if non-nil,
+forces each paragraph in the buffer to have its base direction
+according to the value of this variable.  Possible values are
+`right-to-left' and `left-to-right'.  If the value is nil (the
+default), Emacs determines the base direction of each paragraph from
+its text, as specified by the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.
+
+Reordering of bidirectional text for display in Emacs is a "Full
+bidirectionality" class implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional
+Algorithm.
+
 ** GTK scroll-bars are now placed on the right by default.
 Use `set-scroll-bar-mode' to change this.