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<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">I was wondering about usernames, but they are displayed in a lot of places, and often in contexts where I'd be quite worried about the layout effects of them leaping to the far side of the page.</p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">Hopefully they won't jump around much, due to the <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3432" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/3432/hovercard">text-align issue</a> if nothing else! But I think there aren't many cases were usernames are on their own with much freedom to roam around.</p>
<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">Usernames are also often interpolated in longer strings - doe we just wrap them in a span with dir=auto within the wider string? Mark the whole wider string as auto?</p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">I think just the username. If we mark the wider string as dir=auto and the username comes first, then it'll rearrange the remainder of the text too if the wider string contains punctuation.</p>
<p dir="auto">Contrived example:<br>
<code>username commented yesterday! - block</code> could become <code>block! - username commented yesterday</code> if that username was in arabic, since the dir=auto would see the first character as arabic, and layout the wider string in three chunks RTL (<code>username commented yesterday </code> first, then <code>! - </code>, then <code>block</code>). If just the username is dir=auto, then it won't scramble the rest of wider string.</p>

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