Swagger UI and Redoc lay every description out left-to-right, because they were
built for English. Our text is Persian, and in an LTR block the sentence-final
full stop jumps to the start of the line, table columns come out reversed, and
every English word inside a Persian sentence lands in the wrong place. The
screenshot of /api/docs/ showed all three.
This is not fixable by rewriting the text, because the base direction of the
block is what is wrong. Both views now render through a thin template of ours
that extends the drf-spectacular one via {{ block.super }} and adds scoped CSS:
right-to-left for the blocks that carry rendered Markdown, and an explicit
left-to-right override for code and pre, so that "Authorization: Bearer <token>"
and every JSON sample stay readable. Table cells align right, list bullets move
to the right margin, and the API title keeps its LTR treatment since it is
English.
Writing the description in English instead would have fixed only the header. The
per-endpoint descriptions are Persian across the whole codebase and were broken
the same way, so the shell fixes the entire page rather than one block of it,
and keeps the repo's convention of Persian documentation.
The upstream templates are untouched, so a drf-spectacular upgrade cannot be
broken by this.
Two tests cover it, because this failure is invisible to every other kind of
check: nothing errors, nothing 500s, the page simply reads wrong to a human.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
