Lifespans on RTL pages

[fisharebest]

Reported by Meliza

Lifespans (e.g. 1870-1920) are displayed on RTL pages as 1920-1870.

i.e. reading right-to-left, we have birth-death.

Meliza says that it would be more natural for these separate items to be combined into a single (LTR) phrase and rendered in the other order.

[meliza (meliza)]

We should see the Gregorian and Julian lifespans also on RTL pages as we see them on LTR pages, as 1870-1920.
Now we see them as 1920-1870 on the RTL pages.

Meliza

[fisharebest (fisharebest)]

Adding <span dir="auto"></span> around the lifespan causes the years to be displayed correctly.

However, it breaks the tooltips on each year.

Adding <span dir="auto"></span> around each year appears to trigger a bug in chrome, which causes one of the years to disapper.

[fisharebest (fisharebest)]

In a recent email, Meliza tells me that the current behaviour is widely regarded as correct (if not by her!).

In which case, we can close this.