Add Arabic support.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/language/misc-lang.el b/lisp/language/misc-lang.el
index 2431c9d9e99..e2e4f29dd9e 100644
--- a/lisp/language/misc-lang.el
+++ b/lisp/language/misc-lang.el
@@ -40,8 +40,9 @@
 IPA is International Phonetic Alphabet for English, French, German
 and Italian.")))
 
-;; This is for Arabic.  But, as we still don't have Arabic language
-;; support, we at least define a coding system here.
+;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
+;; Arabic
+;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
 
 (define-coding-system 'iso-8859-6
   "ISO-8859-6 based encoding (MIME:ISO-8859-6)."
@@ -58,6 +59,19 @@ and Italian.")))
   :mime-charset 'windows-1256)
 (define-coding-system-alias 'cp1256 'windows-1256)
 
+(set-language-info-alist
+ "Arabic" '((charset unicode)
+            (coding-system utf-8 iso-8859-6 windows-1256)
+            (coding-priority utf-8 iso-8859-6 windows-1256)
+            (input-method . "arabic")
+            (sample-text . "Arabic      السّلام عليكم")
+            (documentation . "Bidirectional editing is supported.")))
+
+(set-char-table-range
+ composition-function-table
+ '(#x600 . #x6FF)
+ (list ["[\u0600-\u06FF]+" 0 font-shape-gstring]))
+
 (provide 'misc-lang)
 
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