Icon reverses text

[AckslD]

I'm not sure what's going on and if it's nvim-gps's fault but when I set the container icon to the one I want it reverses the whole text, see following screenshot for what I mean:

If I set it to eg 'c' it's not reversed. It is also reversed if I just print require('nvim-gps').get_location(). Any idea what's going on here? The icon I want to use is 0xfb85 (ﮅ). I'm using nerd-fonts-fira-code from AUR and alactritty.

Edit: If I use another one, eg 0xf01c it's not reversed.

[SmiteshP]

I am not able to reproduce this issue in my config. I am using alacritty and Input Mono font. Also tried it with the AUR fira code font you mentioned, still works fine for me.
So something else in your config must be reversing the text.

[AckslD]

Thanks for checking @SmiteshP, I'll let you know if I figure out why this happens :)

[jdrouhard]

The problem is that some icons in nerdfonts switch the active direction for the bidirectional algorithm. I described this issue in nvim-web-devicons which has the same issue for some filetype icons (tex and svg are ones I know of for certain).

If you surround the icon with the direction isolates like I describe there, it should fix your issue.

[AckslD]

I see thanks for explaining @jdrouhard!