Fix · Pages, phones and Arabic

Phone numbers, prices or English words look reversed inside Arabic text

Kuwait and Gulf

What you may see

A phone number written with a plus sign and country code shows the plus at the end
Numbers come out flipped in the Arabic page
A full stop or bracket jumps to the wrong side of an English word
The price 12.500 KWD is mixed up

Most likely cause

Right-to-left text moves neutral signs (+, ., brackets, %) to the wrong side of left-to-right pieces, unless each piece is isolated.

Check first (about two minutes)

Which text is wrong: a phone, a price, a product name in English, a date?

The fix prompt

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The exact error or what you see

What you did before it happened

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Prompt language

You are a senior front-end engineer who knows HTML, CSS, React, phones and Arabic right-to-left pages, and explains things to people who are not developers. I am not a developer, so explain every step in plain words and tell me exactly which button, menu or command you mean. If you are not sure about something, say so; do not guess.

I am in Kuwait. If the service has a Kuwait or Gulf rule or option that matters here (for example KNET, Arabic right-to-left text or local time), take it into account.

THE PROBLEM
Phone numbers, prices or English words look reversed inside Arabic text

THE EXACT ERROR OR WHAT I SEE
[paste the exact error here]

WHAT I DID BEFORE IT HAPPENED
[write in a few words what you did before it happened]

MOST LIKELY CAUSE
Right-to-left text moves neutral signs (+, ., brackets, %) to the wrong side of left-to-right pieces, unless each piece is isolated.

DO THESE STEPS, IN THIS ORDER
1. Wrap each left-to-right piece (phone numbers, prices with currency, codes, English names) in an element with dir="ltr" or the bdi element, or use unicode-bidi: isolate.
2. For user text of unknown direction (names, addresses), use dir="auto" on the element.
3. Decide with me whether numbers show as Western digits (0-9) or Arabic-Indic digits and use ONE style across the site; format Kuwaiti dinar with three decimals.
4. Check the same text in the emails and the receipt too.
Stop and tell me if what you see does not match a step. Do not skip ahead.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED
- The phone number reads left to right inside an Arabic sentence with its plus sign first, and punctuation sits on the correct side.
Tell me exactly what I should see on the screen when it works.

DO NOT CHANGE
- Do not change the numbers or text themselves.
- Anything I did not ask about: the design, the text, other pages, other settings or the data.
- Do not delete files, data or branches, do not reset or force-push, and do not rewrite history, unless you first show me exactly what would be lost and I say yes.
- Do not paste, print or ask me to paste a password or secret key into this chat. If one is needed, tell me which settings page of the right service to store it in.

WHEN YOU FINISH
Explain in simple words what you changed (file by file or setting by setting), why you changed it, and how I can undo it.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor, then follow what it says.

After you tried it, did it work?

Steps

Wrap each left-to-right piece (phone numbers, prices with currency, codes, English names) in an element with dir="ltr" or the bdi element, or use unicode-bidi: isolate.
For user text of unknown direction (names, addresses), use dir="auto" on the element.
Decide with me whether numbers show as Western digits (0-9) or Arabic-Indic digits and use ONE style across the site; format Kuwaiti dinar with three decimals.
Check the same text in the emails and the receipt too.

Do not do this

Do not add invisible marks by hand in the text everywhere; isolate with markup.
Do not change the numbers or text themselves.

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