state of BIDI within stable GNU emacs (UTF8) nikud

[Uwe Brauer]

Hello

I am sorry for if that message gets posted twice, I sent it a couple
of days ago to emacs.bidi then to that list but can't see it
displayed:



After a long time I again 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 it? A snapshot
      version?

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

    - I remember having seen   some emacs branch which  had  even
      nikud support, but   I forgot where, could  somebody please
      give me pointer. (Not sure whether that could be saved as UTF8)

Regards

Uwe Brauer 


PS I sent that mail to emacs.bidi, however it seems not to appear, is
that list dead?