https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39912

Brad Jorsch <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Brad Jorsch <[email protected]> 2012-09-02 
20:01:03 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> And why use it when even the doc
> states only to use it as a last resort due to the incertainties it entails?

Well, in this case we don't know whether the user-entered edit summary is LTR
or RTL, do we? That seems to fit "when the direction of the text is
truly unknown and no better server-side heuristic can be applied", unless we
want MediaWiki to be hard-coding the same check the browser is supposed to do
to output the dir="...".

> Screenshot attached. Basically, dir="auto" makes Chrome treat any preceding
> spacing in span.comment as if word-wrap: nowrap; is applied.

In other words, Chrome has a bug.

BTW, for anyone following along, the link for the comment in the screenshot
appears to be
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&offset=20120902180000&limit=1&action=history,
if further testing is needed. A potentially more useful link is
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Gilderien&offset=20120605185300&target=Gilderien&limit=1
(from an earlier discussion at [[Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive
100#Anomalous Edit Summary]]), which has more spaces for Chrome to screw up on.

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