2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 5dc440d0430..3c101365965 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2011-10-12  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@gnu.org>
+
+        * bidi.c (bidi_init_it): Initialize paragraph_dir to NEUTRAL_DIR.
+
 2011-10-12  Dmitry Antipov  <dmantipov@yandex.ru>
 
         * alloc.c (Fgc_status): Do not access beyond zombies array
diff --git a/src/bidi.c b/src/bidi.c
index e3fc03f4a9b..2c312b14a10 100644
--- a/src/bidi.c
+++ b/src/bidi.c
@@ -808,6 +808,7 @@ bidi_init_it (EMACS_INT charpos, EMACS_INT bytepos, int frame_window_p,
   bidi_it->nchars = -1; /* to be computed in bidi_resolve_explicit_1 */
   bidi_it->first_elt = 1;
   bidi_set_paragraph_end (bidi_it);
+  bidi_it->paragraph_dir = NEUTRAL_DIR;
   bidi_it->new_paragraph = 1;
   bidi_it->separator_limit = -1;
   bidi_it->type = NEUTRAL_B;