@react-aria/i18n/src/utils.ts

Spectrum UI components in React

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// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left
const RTL_SCRIPTS = new Set(['Arab', 'Syrc', 'Samr', 'Mand', 'Thaa', 'Mend', 'Nkoo', 'Adlm', 'Rohg', 'Hebr']);
const RTL_LANGS = new Set(['ae', 'ar', 'arc', 'bcc', 'bqi', 'ckb', 'dv', 'fa', 'glk', 'he', 'ku', 'mzn', 'nqo', 'pnb', 'ps', 'sd', 'ug', 'ur', 'yi']);

/**
 * Determines if a locale is read right to left using [Intl.Locale]{@link https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Intl/Locale}.
 */
export function isRTL(locale: string) {
  // If the Intl.Locale API is available, use it to get the script for the locale.
  // This is more accurate than guessing by language, since languages can be written in multiple scripts.
  // @ts-ignore
  if (Intl.Locale) {
    // @ts-ignore
    let script = new Intl.Locale(locale).maximize().script;
    return RTL_SCRIPTS.has(script);
  }

  // If not, just guess by the language (first part of the locale)
  let lang = locale.split('-')[0];
  return RTL_LANGS.has(lang);
}