From 8b9258c0ec46f0c12fc4d8d1da73120a4ed62cbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zach Copley <zach@status.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:48:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Function to test for RTL language

---
 lib/language.php | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/language.php b/lib/language.php
index 2af62fea0c..d72380e466 100644
--- a/lib/language.php
+++ b/lib/language.php
@@ -289,6 +289,21 @@ function get_nice_language_list()
     return $nice_lang;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Check whether a language is right-to-left
+ *
+ * @param string $lang language code of the language to check
+ * 
+ * @return boolean true if language is rtl
+ */
+
+function is_rtl($lang)
+{
+    $all_languages = common_config('site', 'languages');
+    $lang = $all_languages[$lang];
+    return ($lang['direction'] == 'rtl');
+}
+
 /**
  * Get a list of all languages that are enabled in the default config
  *
-- 
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