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> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 20:44:38 +0100
> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
> 
> One of our (Gentoo) users has asked me, and I'm forwarding the
> question: What is the status of bidirectional support in Emacs?

Nothing's changed, unfortunately.  Emacs still does not support
bidirectional text.

There's an old branch with minimal integration of code I wrote 6 years
ago to implement UAX#9 algorithm in the display engine.  Volunteers
are welcome to work on that branch (after re-sync'ing it with current
Emacs trunk).  I'm available for discussions and advice, but not for
much more, I'm afraid, at least not in the foreseeble future.