Selecting the text character by character makes it clear that the first (rightmost) character is %, the next one is 2, then $, then s – it’s just rendered from right to left. I don’t think we can do much about the display – we can’t use <bdi>, CSS or HTML attributes in a <textbox>, and while Unicode characters could be used to force that bit to render from left to right, those Unicode characters would end up in the translation (or, if we removed them, we would risk also removing those that were inserted by the user manually and intentionally).

I’d even decline it, since I don’t think this is realistically fixable.

Or is it a bug at all? I don’t speak any RTL languages, but I can imagine that the current situation is actually better than what you expect, as one doesn’t have to switch between RTL and LTR, and every switch means extra eye movements.

Removing from team board for now.

In T374415#10144284, @Tacsipacsi wrote:

I’d even decline it, since I don’t think this is realistically fixable.

Or is it a bug at all? I don’t speak any RTL languages, but I can imagine that the current situation is actually better than what you expect, as one doesn’t have to switch between RTL and LTR, and every switch means extra eye movements.

Removing from team board for now. I'll revisit this to see if it should indeed be closed.