Text in comments marked dir="rtl" are left aligned

I poked at TinyMCE (the rich text editor library we use) some more, and it looks like

a) we’re out of date by a bit
b) the latest version handles that situation much better

Upgrading isn’t something we’d like to tack onto this story, so I’ve created the linked ticket to do that.

I figured, but I mentioned it mainly because … Expected (if odd) behavior for HTML following a specific format is one thing, “this unideal HTML is nearly always the output created via using the RTL+List buttons in the Rich Text interface on AO3” is another. Though I recognize that is an entirely different issue from this one.

Based on playing around with the sandbox in , I think that second section is “expected” behaviour (although I agree it’s a bit odd).

Added a new chapter to an existing work, then commented on it https://test.archiveofourown.org/works/1071662/chapters/2179621?show_comments=true#comments

The first and third options were correctly aligned but the middle (rtl listed in the li only and not the ul/ol) resulted in right-aligned bullets/numbers but left-aligned, right-flowing text. This happened both for work text and comment text. At least it’s consistent?

Possibly worth noting – The second scenario’s HTML is the output you get in works via Rich Text if you start with some plain left-aligned text and then click the RTL and list buttons (in any order) … well, sometimes, anyway. I’m not quite sure where the line between good and bad results is, but… Starting from “blinking cursor” and moving up successively from “highlighting single words” to “multiple lines” to “Ctrl-A the whole text” before clicking any formatting buttons, the bad result seemed to happen each time with the exception of “highlighting most/all of the text first” and “highlighting some text that was already RTL” … though not always, so I can’t say for sure. Mentioning it here because I found it while trying to create the above text pattern.

Posted https://test.archiveofourown.org/chapters/2179603?show_comments=true&view_full_work=false#comment_5210179 and added 2 comments with RTL text. Both show up on the right (after I recached skins).