emacs 24's forward-char vs right-char behavior

[Xah Lee]

if it's not too late, i think the semantics of “forward-char” and
“right-char” should be exchanged (from what it currently is in emacs
24).

“forward-char”'s direction should be context sensitive.

“right-char” should always move to the right.

At first i thought emacs can't do that because lots elisp code depends
on “forward-char”'s existing behavior.

But on second thought, am thinking it's probably rare that elisp is
used to process {Arabic, Persian (Iran), Hebrew} languages. After all,
these weren't supported up to now. So, perhaps changing “forward-
char”'s behavior isn't too bad?

 Xah