Thanks for taking the time to report this!

Confirmed by pasting the above line on https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D9%86%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B4_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85:AKlapper_%28WMF%29/bug57789 in preview mode.

but shouldn't it be <div style="text-align:left;" dir="ltr">/hello </div>

in that case ? How would bidi now it's an ltr text otherwise ?\x10

I think this is an invalid report. I think that directionality hints and browser specific implementations of the bi-directional text algorithms depend how this is rendered.

Will ask Amir to assess.

(In reply to comment #2)

but shouldn't it be <div style="text-align:left;" dir="ltr">/hello </div>

in that case ? How would bidi now it's an ltr text otherwise ?\x10

If I understand the report correctly the right thing to do is to use
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">/hello</div>

style="text-align:left" is not supposed to be needed if you use the above attributes.

Please reopen if Derk-Jan and I misunderstand something.

omid_h28 wrote:

(In reply to comment #4)

(In reply to comment #2)

but shouldn't it be <div style="text-align:left;" dir="ltr">/hello </div>

in that case ? How would bidi now it's an ltr text otherwise ?\x10

If I understand the report correctly the right thing to do is to use
<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr">/hello</div>

style="text-align:left" is not supposed to be needed if you use the above
attributes.

Please reopen if Derk-Jan and I misunderstand something.

It worked, Thanks

There was no valid bug in existing MediaWiki code here, hence nothing was FIXED either. Resetting to INVALID.

Mid-air collision with explanation:

Updating the resolution back to the original "invalid". Per https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Bug_report_life_cycle :

• RESOLVED INVALID when the problem is not a bug.
• RESOLVED FIXED when a code change that fixes the reported problem has been merged in Gerrit.