Improve our handling of technical right-to-left (RTL) strings in sim translations
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Since Jul 14, 2025.
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Description
This issue is being created as a parent issue for several right-to-left (RTL) translation problems that have been reported lately. I was originally tasked with working on a reported problem related to the position of minus signs on numbers, but that work has now expanded to several other things.
Briefly, we'd like to improve the handling of minus signs, equations with equals signs, and the positioning of units (e.g. km, km/s, °C). There may be other things we encounter during this work. The top related issues are:
https://github.com/phetsims/phetcommon/issues/68
https://github.com/phetsims/axon/issues/464
https://github.com/phetsims/center-and-variability/issues/641
This issue is being created in the rosetta repo because it relates to translation, but it will likely touch a number of the simulation-related repos.
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