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[FIX] replaceCategoryInPlace: Allow LRM and RLM at the end of the old_cat title

Left-to-right and right-to-left marks commonly occur at the end of the
category name due to copy and pasting.

Bug: T240084
Change-Id: I6e3ef25c8a17ddb096a2d161019f7d891e3e0a1c
---
M pywikibot/textlib.py
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pywikibot/textlib.py b/pywikibot/textlib.py
index ebefc8f..4723749 100644
--- a/pywikibot/textlib.py
+++ b/pywikibot/textlib.py
@@ -1394,10 +1394,12 @@
         title = '[%s%s]' % (title[0].upper(), title[0].lower()) + title[1:]
     # spaces and underscores in page titles are interchangeable and collapsible
     title = title.replace(r'\ ', '[ _]+').replace(r'\_', '[ _]+')
-    categoryR = re.compile(r'\[\[\s*(%s)\s*:\s*%s\s*((?:\|[^]]+)?\]\])'
+    categoryR = re.compile(r'\[\[\s*(%s)\s*:\s*%s[\s\u200e\u200f]*'
+                           r'((?:\|[^]]+)?\]\])'
                            % (catNamespace, title), re.I)
     categoryRN = re.compile(
-        r'^[^\S\n]*\[\[\s*(%s)\s*:\s*%s\s*((?:\|[^]]+)?\]\])[^\S\n]*\n'
+        r'^[^\S\n]*\[\[\s*(%s)\s*:\s*%s[\s\u200e\u200f]*'
+        r'((?:\|[^]]+)?\]\])[^\S\n]*\n'
         % (catNamespace, title), re.I | re.M)
     exceptions = ['nowiki', 'comment', 'math', 'pre', 'source']
     if newcat is None:

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