Delete char-direction-table and char-direction.

 See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-04/msg00675.html
 for the reasons.

 src/character.c (Fchar_direction): Function deleted.
 (syms_of_character): Don't defsubr it.
 <char-direction-table>: Deleted.
 etc/NEWS: Document the removal.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index aed90764fa1..09d54c41d69 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ image formats in Emacs.  By default, Emacs links with the ImageMagick
 libraries if they are present at build time.  This needs ImageMagick
 6.2.8 or newer (versions newer than 6.0.7 _may_ work but have not been
 tested).  To disable ImageMagick support, use the configure option
-`--without-imagemagick'.  
+`--without-imagemagick'.
 
 The new function `imagemagick-types' returns a list of image file
 extensions that your installation of ImageMagick supports.  The
@@ -720,6 +720,13 @@ soap-inspect.el is an interactive inspector for SOAP WSDL structures.
 
 * Incompatible Lisp Changes in Emacs 24.1
 
+---
+** `char-direction-table' and the associated function `char-direction'
+were deleted.  They were buggy and inferior to the new support of
+bidirectional editing introduced in Emacs 24.  If you need the
+bidirectional properties of a character, use `get-char-code-property'
+with the last argument `bidi-class'.
+
 ** `copy-directory' now copies the source directory as a subdirectory
 of the target directory, if the latter is an existing directory.  The
 new optional arg COPY-CONTENTS, if non-nil, makes the function copy