Re: state of BIDI within stable GNU emacs (UTF8) nikud

> From: Uwe Brauer <oub <at> mat.ucm.es>
> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:28:52 +0100
> 
> After a long time I have to use GNU emacs to write some hebrew text
> (most likely including nikud). 
> 
>     - I   am currently trying out  the  stable emacs 21.4 version
>       (shipped with Debian  unstable). That  version has no   R2L
>       support as far as I can see. Which version has, a snapshot
>       version. 

Sorry, there's still no support for bidi editing in any version of
Emacs, not even in the CVS.

>     - Could the hebrew  text be saved as UTF8  (I would need that
>       urgently)

Yes.

>     - I remember having seen   some emacs branch which  had  even
>       nikud support, but   I forgot where, could  somebody please
>       give me pointer.

I don't think anything like this exists.