I've received serveral emails lately from people interested in how I setup sites in none latin character sets, arabic, hebrew etc.

The default is left to right and the second is Right to left, its actually fairly simple to do.

# English Wrap

temp.pagecontent = COBJ_ARRAY
temp.pagecontent {

 5 = HTML
 5.value =

 6 < styles.content.get

 7 = HTML
 7.value =
}

#Arabic / Hebrew Wrap
[globalVar = GP:L = 1]

temp.pagecontent = COBJ_ARRAY
temp.pagecontent {

 5 = HTML
 5.value =

 6 < styles.content.get

 7 = HTML
 7.value = 
 
}
 

#Inside Elements
   subparts.pagetitle < temp.pagetitle

# Modified or inserted by TYPO3 Install Tool into localconf.php

$TYPO3_CONF_VARS["BE"]["forceCharset"] = 'utf-8';      

I also use the 'rtehtmlarea' instead of the default typo3 RTE.