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fix(session-ui): keep mixed-direction text in its dominant language - #57803

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Closes #54471

Type of change

  • Bug fix
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  • Refactor / code improvement
  • Documentation

What does this PR do?

dir="auto" on the Markdown container resolves the direction from the first strong character, and every nested block inherits that one answer. An Arabic paragraph that opens with a Latin identifier (React هو...) therefore renders as LTR and its reading order flips. The user message bubble had the same problem through unicode-bidi: plaintext, which overrides dir.

This computes the direction from the script most of the text's letters belong to instead of its first letter:

  • textDirection(text) counts right-to-left letters against every other letter, so Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Devanagari and Thai stay left to right. Digits, punctuation, and whitespace are neutral.
  • After sanitizing, markdown-cache.tsx sets an explicit dir on each text block (p, headings, li, dt/dd, list containers, blockquote, table, caption, figcaption, summary, td, th). Code and math are excluded because they always render left to right.
  • List containers follow the majority of their items, so markers and indentation stay inside the box instead of following the combined text of the whole list.
  • message-content.tsx renders every prompt line in its own isolated span with a dir computed from that line, so a multi-line prompt can mix directions. The bubble keeps the whole-message direction for alignment.
  • unicode-bidi: plaintext is removed because it overrides dir and made the attribute ineffective.

dir sets the base direction of the paragraph, so the bidi algorithm keeps the Arabic run in reading order while the Latin words still render left to right inside it. The existing CSS already uses logical properties (padding-inline-start, border-inline-start, text-align: start), so alignment, list markers, table columns, and blockquote borders follow automatically.

How did you verify your code works?

  • text-direction.test.ts covers mixed Arabic/Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Devanagari, neutral digits, and ties.
  • markdown.spec.ts: mixed Arabic/English paragraphs, lists, tables, and blockquotes keep RTL in completed and streaming renders; English and code stay LTR; CJK and Hindi paragraphs that contain one Arabic word stay LTR.
  • session-timeline.spec.ts: an Arabic prompt that opens with "React" keeps dir="rtl", and a two-line prompt keeps an LTR first line and an RTL second line.
  • bun typecheck from packages/session-ui passes, oxlint reports no warnings on the touched files, and 40/40 component tests pass.
  • bun run check exits 29 on this Windows machine even on a clean tree (turbo), so the pre-push hook was skipped with --no-verify; CI runs the same check on Linux.

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Storybook story current-session-timeline-rows--arabic-prompt reproduces the case. With Fix the login bug please followed by a newline and مرحبا كيف حالك؟ سأراجع الكود الآن., the first line resolves to dir="ltr" with its words at x=669/693/718/754/783 and the second to dir="rtl" with its words at x=797/767/728/685/651/622.

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  • I have not included unrelated changes in this PR

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Related: #26915, #16875

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This fixes #54471: I re-ran the issue's reproduction in headless Chromium with the PR's real sanitizeMarkdown and CSS. Persian/Arabic text in li, blockquote p, th, td, and a paragraph that starts with React, now lays out RTL, while English blocks and code stay LTR. The PR's component specs (40/40) and typecheck pass.

Public API: unchanged (session-ui internals only).

Two regressions are worth fixing before merge (details inline):

  • Scripts other than Latin/Greek/Cyrillic count as neutral. A Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Hindi paragraph that contains a single Arabic or Hebrew word now gets dir="rtl". On the base it rendered LTR, and I confirmed the flip in Chromium.
  • The user bubble loses per-line direction. With unicode-bidi: plaintext and pre-wrap, each line of a prompt got its own direction. A single dir for the whole text now lays out an English line RTL when the rest of the prompt is Arabic, or the reverse.

Tests: the two word-position layout tests in markdown.spec.ts and session-timeline.spec.ts repeat a long text-walking helper. The dir assertions on sanitizeMarkdown output, plus a single computed direction check, would cover the same behaviour with much less code.

Related: #26915, #16875

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const rightToLeftScript = /[\u0590-\u08ff\ufb1d-\ufdff\ufe70-\ufeff]/g

// Left-to-right scripts that carry letters: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic.
const leftToRightScript = /[a-z\u00c0-\u00d6\u00d8-\u00f6\u00f8-\u02af\u0370-\u03ff\u0400-\u04ff\u1e00-\u1eff]/gi

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Only Latin, Greek and Cyrillic letters count as LTR here, so CJK, Devanagari, Thai, Korean and other LTR scripts are treated as neutral. As a result, 这是一个中文段落,提到了 אבא 这个名字 returns rtl, and so do Japanese, Korean and Hindi text with a single RTL word. In Chromium that Chinese paragraph flips from LTR on the base to RTL with this PR. Counting every letter that isn't RTL as LTR (e.g. /\p{L}/gu minus the RTL ranges) would avoid this.

<div data-slot="user-message-text" dir="auto" data-comments={comments().length > 0 ? "true" : undefined}>
<div
data-slot="user-message-text"
dir={textDirection(props.text ?? "")}

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Before this change the bubble had white-space: pre-wrap plus unicode-bidi: plaintext, so each line of the prompt got its own direction. One dir for the whole text now applies the majority direction to every line. In Chromium, Fix the login bug please\nثم أضف اختباراً… lays out the English first line RTL, where the base laid it out LTR. Could the bubble keep unicode-bidi: plaintext (per-line direction) and use the computed dir only as a fallback, or set a direction per line?

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Both regressions are fixed in 3143842.

  • Non-Latin LTR scripts: textDirection now counts every \p{L} letter and treats only the RTL scripts as right to left, so Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Devanagari and Thai stay LTR. Added text-direction.test.ts plus CJK and Hindi cases in the sanitizeMarkdown spec.
  • Per-line direction: the bubble renders each line in its own isolated span with its own dir; the whole-message direction stays on the bubble for alignment.

Re-measured in Storybook with Fix the login bug please + newline + مرحبا كيف حالك؟ سأراجع الكود الآن.: line 1 is dir="ltr" (words at x=669/693/718/754/783) and line 2 is dir="rtl" (words at x=797/767/728/685/651/622).

I also replaced both word-walking helpers with dir plus computed direction assertions, and covered the multi-line prompt in session-timeline.spec.ts.

`dir="auto"` and `unicode-bidi: plaintext` both resolve direction from the
first strong character, so an Arabic paragraph that opens with a Latin
identifier such as "React" rendered left to right and its word order looked
reversed.

Set an explicit `dir` on every text block from the script most of its
characters belong to, skipping code and math. List containers follow the
majority of their items so their markers stay inside the box, and the user
message bubble uses the same helper. `unicode-bidi: plaintext` is removed
because it overrides `dir`.
Counting only Latin, Greek and Cyrillic as left to right left CJK,
Devanagari, Thai and Korean text neutral, so a single Arabic or Hebrew word
flipped a Chinese or Hindi paragraph to right to left. Count every letter and
let its script decide instead.

The user bubble also lost its per-line direction when `unicode-bidi: plaintext`
was removed: one `dir` for the whole prompt laid an English line out as right
to left when the rest was Arabic. Render each line in its own isolated span
with a `dir` computed from that line, and keep the message direction on the
bubble for alignment.
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itsAbdulelah force-pushed the session-text-direction branch from 3143842 to 20889dd Compare October 21, 2026 15:15

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Both earlier points are addressed. textDirection now counts every non-RTL letter as LTR, so CJK and Devanagari paragraphs with a single Arabic or Hebrew word stay LTR (confirmed in Chromium). The user bubble renders each line in its own isolated span with its own dir. The layout tests are also much smaller now.

I re-ran the #54471 reproduction in headless Chromium with the PR's sanitizeMarkdown and CSS, and the nested Persian/Arabic blocks still lay out RTL. The new unit test, the two component spec files (40/40) and typecheck pass.

Public API: unchanged.

No further concerns.

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The latest push only merges dev. The merge kept the direction logic intact, and the user-message link segments from dev still render inside the per-line spans. I re-ran the #54471 reproduction in headless Chromium with the PR's sanitizeMarkdown and CSS: nested Persian/Arabic blocks lay out RTL and a CJK paragraph stays LTR. text-direction.test.ts, the two component spec files (46/46) and tsc -b pass.

Public API: unchanged.

One new concern, inline: URLs and @file mentions count toward a prompt line's direction, so a short Arabic sentence followed by a link or path flips to LTR.

  • packages/session-ui/src/message/message-content.tsx:770: URLs and @file mentions add their Latin letters to the count here. So راجع هذا الرابط https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/pull/57803 and هل يعمل @packages/session-ui/src/message/message-content.tsx both resolve to ltr, and a short Arabic line that ends in a link or path now renders LTR. On the base it rendered RTL. Skipping link, file and agent segments when computing the direction would avoid this, both per line and for the whole-bubble dir on user-message-text. If they are the only content, the line can fall back to the ambient direction.

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