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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>
> Date: 25 Apr 2012 12:48:28 GMT
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> the text will be right-aligned, as it's an all-arabic paragraph.
> >
> > More accurately, a paragraph is considered right-to-left if its first
> > strong directional character (after skipping punctuation, digits,
> > etc.) is R2L.
> 
> yes, i found that out the hard way (started a paragraph that was meant to
> be r2l with an english word... ;-)

You can still have such a paragraph displayed right-to-left if you
insert the RLM (U+200F) character at its beginning.