From: alexbodn@gmail.com <alexbodn@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:28:20 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Add support for character order information
X-Git-Tag: 2.3.1~4^2~4
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c3536d49c1b72a94b3cf73499174238fb89cf05a;p=thirdparty%2Fbabel.git

Add support for character order information
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diff --git a/babel/core.py b/babel/core.py
index 3e9f9a39..251ebf16 100644
--- a/babel/core.py
+++ b/babel/core.py
@@ -885,6 +885,29 @@ class Locale(object):
         """
         return self._data.get('ordinal_form', _default_plural_rule)
 
+    @property
+    def character_order(self):
+        """The text direction for the language.
+
+        >>> Locale('de', 'DE').character_order
+        'left-to-right'
+        >>> Locale('ar', 'SA').character_order
+        'right-to-left'
+        """
+        return self._data['character_order']
+
+    @property
+    def direction(self):
+        """The text direction for the language in CSS short-hand form.
+
+        >>> Locale('de', 'DE').direction
+        'ltr'
+        >>> Locale('ar', 'SA').direction
+        'rtl'
+        """
+        order = self.character_order
+        return ''.join([word[0] for word in order.split('-')])
+
 
 def default_locale(category=None, aliases=LOCALE_ALIASES):
     """Returns the system default locale for a given category, based on
diff --git a/scripts/import_cldr.py b/scripts/import_cldr.py
index 00d11e95..af48d0f3 100755
--- a/scripts/import_cldr.py
+++ b/scripts/import_cldr.py
@@ -422,6 +422,9 @@ def _process_local_datas(sup, srcdir, destdir, force=False, dump_json=False):
         parse_unit_patterns(data, tree)
         parse_date_fields(data, tree)
 
+        for elem in tree.findall('.//layout/orientation/characterOrder'):
+            data['character_order'] = elem.text
+
         write_datafile(data_filename, data, dump_json=dump_json)