=== Issue
1. Visit a wiki that has been configured to support LTR languages*
2. Navigate to a talk page where Topic Containers are enabled
3. Change the "Display language" to a RTL language that uses [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Arabic_numerals|Western Arabic numerals]] (e.g. Hebrew)
4. Notice the interface elements that used to appear on the left side of the screen now appear on the right (e.g. the site's search field)
**Actual**
5. ❗️ Notice the numerals that appear within the Topic Container appear after the text labels rather before them (read: "comments 4")
**Expected**
5. ✅ Notice the numerals that appear within the Topic Container appear before the text labels rather before them (read: "4 comments")
//*This also happens if you visit a wiki configured to support RTL languages and change the "Display language" from an RTL to an LTR language using Western Arabic numerals.//
NOTE: this issue will not occure if the translation puts text before the text (e.g. if the English translation was `There are $1 comments` instead of `$1 comments`, the metadata would display correctly).
=== Open questions
- [ ] 1. Should Topic Containers be treated as a singular piece of interface that should maintain the directionality of the interface language? //Meaning: all units, actions and metadata, would be aligned opposite of the content in the cases this ticket covers.//
- [ ] 2. Should each piece of metadata (last comment, number of people in discussion) be treated as an individual unit that flows in the same direction as the content language? //Note: this is how {nav [edit ]} and {nav [edit source]} buttons are treated.//
- [ ] 3. What does precedence say? How does VE handle this case?
=== Done
- [ ] `Expected` behavior is implemented
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//Thank you to @Tacsipacsi for reporting this issue: [Topic:Wse3oklohvbmozfx](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Wse3oklohvbmozfx).//