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‎ character jumbles text and this can be confusing when working with many articles

I often work bidirectional text in content management systems and often that text has parenthesis (`()`) or other textual wrappers flipping after an English text which is preceded in itself by some Right-to-Left text.

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For example, with Hebrew, I get the following output:

![Preceding Hebrew with parenthesis before document.write](https://software.codidact.com/uploads/E5QHt2onwxHLfbusVu52aZBT)

Instead of the desired output:

![Preceding Hebrew with parenthesis after document.write](https://software.codidact.com/uploads/YNyv5EGdCcYfRKKT289nCFuE)

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## The standard fix

I can fix the problem with `&lrm;` [(Left-to-Right mark)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-to-right_mark) by putting it left to the parenthesis.

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For example, untreated input:

![Untreaded input](https://software.codidact.com/uploads/TjJ2YMVnFFVewADyHPdirxyx)

Treated input:

![Input with ](https://software.codidact.com/uploads/q7CHRy2yX8GmxG28PhVUVPQr)

This way, I will indeed get the **desired output**.

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## A possible problem with the standard fix

`&lrm;` is a *multi-symbol-character* fixer and can make the input appear more jumbled up than with just the parenthesis, so content editing becomes more frustrating. Hence, I would prefer to use some *single-symbol-character* fixer left to the parenthesis.

## My question

How will you suggest to solve that problem?

## Notes

* There are images in this question because Codidact renders content differently than the content management system I use (MediaWiki)
* I would have gladly used some single-symbol-character representing `&lrm;` with decent browser support but I doubt one currently exists; maybe JavaScript/CSS are better approaches.