Odd Field Display w. 26.05 (Windows)

Anki Card Design
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Anki 26.05 is exhibiting odd behavior with some cards in my homemade Hebrew deck.

I made these cards years ago & they have displayed properly up until I upgraded to 26.05 (Windows).

The oddities:
IN THE PRONUNCIATION FIELD:
if the pronunciation starts with a vowel sound (which I put in parentheses), the entire first vowel sound is moved to the END of the pronunciation when the card is displayed.
Example: (ah)v will display as v(ah)

IN THE GRAMMAR FIELD:
-the period at the end of expressions like “masc. sg.” will move to the FRONT and display as “.masc. sg”
-if an Hebrew word is at the start of a line, it will be moved in its entirety to the END of the line

Here is a screenshot of the fields:

Anki Fields (bad)
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Here is what is displayed:

Anki Card (bad)
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As I said, these cards have displayed properly in all previous versions of Anki.

Is anyone else seeing strange things like this??

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There was a change in Anki default behavior when determining which text direction to use, left-to-right or right-to-left. As I understand it, the old behavior was based on UI language setting, while the new behavior depends on the first character of the first field of the Note.

In your example Note the first character of the first field is a Hebrew character, and I believe that Hebrew is written right-to-left.

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But what about moving the period (and only the period) from the end of the “masc. sg.” phrase?

and moving the WHOLE parnethetical ‘vowel sound’ block to the end of the line? There is no Hebrew in this field, so it shouldn’t be acting as ‘right to left’. Even if it were, the word “(ah)v” should display as “v(ha)” (backwards) instead of just moving the (ah) sound to the end. And if the first character is NOT a parenthesis, it displays normally, e.g. “Y(OM)” displays properly.

and even if an Hebrew word is at the front, why does it move the WHOLE WORD to the end and leave everything else untouched? Wouldn’t everything now be written backwards if the field were acting as ‘right to left’?

EDIT:
I looked at the thread you referenced & tried a few things & it seems that I can ‘fix’ the issue using a suggestion you made:

using span dir=“ltr” in the template for the fields that are having problems.

Thanks so much for the help!