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<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">we would need to be able to override it when we don't want it.</p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">Yep. I expect if there was a default set via the rails helpers it would still be overridden by the options hash when the helper is used, so we can add the <code>dir</code> to the one or two cases that need it (basically the inverse of what we have here).</p>
<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">(latitude and longitude for user positions for example)</p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">text_fields used for numbers should be fine, since with dir="auto" they are actually better laid out for negative numbers than currently. In dir="rtl" the negative sign is shown to the right (before) the number, but in arabic the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Arabic_mathematical_notation" rel="nofollow">negative should be shown to the left</a>. Both dir="auto" and dir="ltr" do the right thing here.</p>
<p dir="auto">(If anyone has a contra-example for an RTL language that shows regular numerals differently, then I'd love to hear about it - I can't speak or read any RTL languages myself so my knowledge is limited to what I read online).</p>

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