Browsers are responsible for the inability to properly display Right-to-Left languages like Hebrew, but the characters themselves require fonts that aren’t generally available.

UTF-8 solved many of the font problems, and UTF-16 even more, but it is up to the browser to identify the shift to displaying from Right-to-Left based on the character encoding.

This is just the next step in the process, and it isn’t a giant leap by any stretch of the imagination, but it will goad the people who write browsers to begin dealing with the problem.

Or, at least Fürst among equals.