Chrome seems to already support dir=auto, and I see no downsides using it for user...

Amir said that it is good.

diff --git a/includes/Linker.php b/includes/Linker.php
index 0ca1732..4861045 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/Linker.php
+++ b/includes/Linker.php
@@ -1370,7 +1370,7 @@ class Linker {
                        return '';
                } else {
                        $formatted = self::formatComment( $comment, $title, $local );
-                       return " <span class=\"comment\">($formatted)</span>";
+                       return " <span class=\"comment\" dir=\"auto\">($formatted)</span>";
                }
        }