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As a rule, the direction should be set to "ltr" or "rtl" as appropriate if known for the language, and "auto" if the language is unknown. The main reason for this is that a lemma can include ambiguous characters and without the direction tags, lemmas with ambiguous characters at the beginning or end currently re-orient them according to the interface language. The alignment of the text to the left or right overall is not important by comparison. (Personally, I actually prefer that they all align to the same direction, left or right. As lemma representations are unordered, this means that for languages which use both RTL and LTR scripts, you end up with "zig-zag" shaped lists of statements where each entry is aligned to one side depending on which representation happened to be entered first.) Here is an example: If we have کدے… The ellipsis is the final character and should be shown to the left of the word, as: کدے… (Simulated here followed by the Arabic Letter Mark control character.) We can only get this behaviour if the lemma is tightly wrapped in dir="rtl" or dir="auto", or immediately followed by a control character (Right to Left Mark should be used for Hebrew, and Arabic Letter Mark for all other RTL scripts including non-Arabic ones like Divehi). Without this, the ambiguous character can end up anywhere. Since my interface is set to a RTL locale, this means that for example, a lemma like "-ed" shows up as "ed-" in various places, particularly if it is a lemma without a standard code. Every Proto-Indo-European lemma shows the asterisks and hyphens in the wrong position, but this would be fixed with dir="auto". TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300261 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: mrephabricator Cc: mrephabricator, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, Jakob_WMDE, Astuthiodit_1, Prufkick, karapayneWMDE, Invadibot, maantietaja, ItamarWMDE, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, Mahir256, QZanden, Muhammed4IT, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Srdjan, MuhammadShuaib, LNDDYL, Psychoslave, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Huji, Amire80, Gryllida, Shizhao, Arrbee, Mbch331, Jay8g
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