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(efaq)Right-to-left alphabets

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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 <joel@exc.com> 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.

   `hebrew.el' requires a Hebrew screen font, but no other hardware
support.  Joel has a screen font for PCs running MS-DOS or GNU/Linux.

   You might also try to query archie for files named with `hebrew';
several ftp sites in Israel may also have the necessary files.