Fix display of Hebrew tutorial title on splash screen.

 lisp/startup.el (fancy-startup-text): Read the whole tutorial, not
 just its first 256 bytes.  Prevents gibberish in display of the
 tutorial title.
 etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.he: Make the first sentence display correctly
 in a left-to-right paragraph, such as what is shown on the fancy
 splash screen, by using directional control characters.

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index f2b89c086dd..8edae88c1da 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-07-20  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+        * startup.el (fancy-startup-text): Read the whole tutorial, not
+        just its first 256 bytes.  Prevents gibberish in display of the
+        tutorial title.
+
 2012-07-20  Dmitry Antipov  <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
 
         Drop idle buffer compaction due to an absence of the
diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index 3adc2caa04a..e861a333a76 100644
--- a/lisp/startup.el
+++ b/lisp/startup.el
@@ -1311,7 +1311,15 @@ If this is nil, no message will be displayed."
               (title (with-temp-buffer
                        (insert-file-contents
                         (expand-file-name tut tutorial-directory)
-                        nil 0 256)
+                        ;; We used to read only the first 256 bytes of
+                        ;; the tutorial, but that prevents the coding:
+                        ;; setting, if any, in file-local variables
+                        ;; section to be seen by insert-file-contents,
+                        ;; and results in gibberish when the language
+                        ;; environment's preferred encoding is
+                        ;; different from what the file-local variable
+                        ;; says.  One case in point is Hebrew.
+                        nil)
                        (search-forward ".")
                        (buffer-substring (point-min) (1- (point))))))
          ;; If there is a specific tutorial for the current language