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RLM

The LRM's twin, pointing to the other side of the world.

Same trade, opposite direction: the RLM declares “I am right-to-left” and rescues the punctuation of Hebrew or Arabic passages embedded in Latin text.

The LRM/RLM pair is the bidirectional algorithm's manual tool — today HTML also offers the dir attribute and the <bdi> element for the same rescue. The entity is &rlm;.

Without RLM:  שלום! — the exclamation mark jumps to the wrong side
With RLM:     שלום&rlm;! — the sign returns to its word
The same compass, pointed the other way.