@cindex Euro sign
@cindex UTF-8
@quotation
-ASCII, Belarusian, Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian,
+ASCII, Belarusian, Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Cham,
Chinese-BIG5, Chinese-CNS, Chinese-EUC-TW, Chinese-GB, Chinese-GBK,
Chinese-GB18030, Croatian, Cyrillic-ALT, Cyrillic-ISO, Cyrillic-KOI8,
Czech, Devanagari, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Ethiopic, French,
@c FIXME? The doc of *standard*-fontset-spec says:
@c "You have the biggest chance to display international characters
@c with correct glyphs by using the *standard* fontset." (my emphasis)
+@c See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-04/msg00430.html
The default fontset is most likely to have fonts for a wide variety of
non-@acronym{ASCII} characters, and is the default fallback for the
other two fontsets, and if you set a default font rather than fontset.
directionality when they are displayed. The default value is
@code{t}.
+@cindex base direction of paragraphs
+@cindex paragraph, base direction
Each paragraph of bidirectional text can have its own @dfn{base
direction}, either right-to-left or left-to-right. (Paragraph
@c paragraph-separate etc have no influence on this?
boundaries are empty lines, i.e.@: lines consisting entirely of
-whitespace characters.) Text in left-to-right paragraphs begins at
-the left margin of the window and is truncated or continued when it
-reaches the right margin. By contrast, text in right-to-left
-paragraphs begins at the right margin and is continued or truncated at
-the left margin.
+whitespace characters.) Text in left-to-right paragraphs begins on
+the screen at the left margin of the window and is truncated or
+continued when it reaches the right margin. By contrast, text in
+right-to-left paragraphs is displayed starting at the right margin and
+is continued or truncated at the left margin.
@vindex bidi-paragraph-direction
Emacs determines the base direction of each paragraph dynamically,