The example on the <bdi> page says:
<p dir="ltr">This arabic word <bdi>ARABIC_PLACEHOLDER</bdi>
is automatically displayed right-to-left.</p>
I believe the intent is to put an Arabic example there, like:
<p dir="ltr">This arabic phrase <bdi>.مثال بالعربية</bdi>
is automatically displayed right-to-left.</p>
Is that right? should I edit the page?
Yeah, the example is wrong, and the explanation is wrong. <bdi> doesn’t do right-to-left layout, it creates a new context for the bidi algorithm. That way, things like punctuation marks align to the text inside the bdi, and not the surroundings.
@zbraniecki, do you have a good example in your toolbox?
yeah, that’s why I put a dot at the end of the Arabic example
The reason why that text is in English is to allow English readers to see that the characters are reversed. In theory. I don’t know that that actually works. 