I'm almost certain this is a dupe report.

Bug 49255, bug 45941, bug 45932 might all have the same underlying reason. Anybody who knows the codebase better, feel free to mark as a duplicates.

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Bug 49255, bug 45941, bug 45932 might all have the same underlying reason.
Anybody who knows the codebase better, feel free to mark as a duplicates.

These are really all upstream bugs, related to bi-directional text problems. I'm adding Amir on CC. I think we have to close all of these as "WONTFIX" and add an "upstream" keyword. MediaWiki is not the level at which we can or should address this, I think. What are your thoughts, Amir?

• Bug 43588 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Change 78477 had a related patch set uploaded by Mwalker:
Provide direction hinting in the personal toolbar

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78477

mwalker wrote:

*** Bug 52684 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

The latest bidi (bi-directional text) algorithms in Unicode 6.3.0[1] are addressing this type of issues. I'm setting this to "low", as over time, browsers are expected to implement these algorithms so that they will be resolved.

[1] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/

Change 78477 merged by jenkins-bot:
Provide direction hinting in the personal toolbar

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78477

This should be fixed by Matt's patch, I would appreciate if someone could verify.

For some browsers. Unfortunately https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Language_tools/Support_of_HTML_RTL_features_in_browsers is not very informative which ones.