In dynamic locale dialog, some parens in RTL lang are in wrong direction

[liammulh]

Test Device

MacBook Air

Operating System

macOS 12.4

Browser

Safari 15.5

Problem Description

Discovered during phetsims/qa#900. In the dynamic locale dialog, the parentheses in one of the Arabic language locales — I think it's ar_MA or Arabic (Morocco) — are in the wrong direction. I believe the parenthesis circled in red below should be an open parenthesis, not a close parenthesis.

I am not sure if this is a rendering issue or a text data issue. Feel free to move this issue.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open this link
2. Open the preferences dialog
3. Open the localization tab

Visuals

[samreid]

In slack, @kathy-phet said:

BLL published in PhET-iO has it right, so I'm not sure why it has it wrong here:

@Nancy-Salpepi replied:

I had opened an issue related to ar_MA in BLL.
phetsims/beers-law-lab#326. Maybe that is why?

[samreid]

There is evidence this is a browser-specific bug. I tested https://phet-dev.colorado.edu/html/circuit-construction-kit-dc/1.3.0-dev.20/phet-io/circuit-construction-kit-dc_all_phet-io.html?postMessageOnError&phetioStandalone in Chrome and Safari, and saw that Chrome is correct and Safari is incorrect. Here's the screenshot (Chrome on left, Safari on right):

May also be related to #1355

[samreid]

Would it help to call wrapRTL like phetsims/build-a-molecule@8b6bc0c ?

[Nancy-Salpepi]

Actually it is incorrect in published BBL as well with safari. The issue I had opened was for the formulas.
Sorry I didn't catch this.

[matthew-blackman]

@samreid @zepumph @arouinfar and I discussed this, and note that this is not a sim-specific issue.

We would like to reach out to @jonathanolson and @jbphet to provide insight into how this could be solved.

[jonathanolson]

Looking into it. I don't see directional marks in the string for some reason.

[kathy-phet]

It still works fine on Windows, Chrome.

[jbphet]

@jonathanolson and I are going to experiment a bit with isolates (see #1355) and see if it makes any different.

[jonathanolson]

Patched above. Browsers were making different guesses for directionality when we didn't have embedding marks in.

[jonathanolson]

@kathy-phet should this be maintenance-patched? I'll patch joist/phetcommon if so.

[Nancy-Salpepi]

FYI @samreid: this is fixed in Circuit Construction Kit: DC 1.3.0-rc.1 with mac + safari.

[jonathanolson]

MR'ed, closing!