How to obtain the writing direction for a given locale?

[rizzen-yazston]

For the projects I am working on I require to know what the writing direction for a given locale in order to layout various widgets correctly according to the language of the locale. Thus wondering if there a way to obtain the writing direction (usually to left or to right in a downward direction), and if possible how would one obtain this piece of information for the locale.

PS: Can't wait for displayname crate to be stable. Going to be nice to display the language name in the language of the locale, instead of the language tag (locale).

[zbraniecki]

Hi, thanks for reaching out!

The functionality you're looking for is currently exposed in locid_transform crate as LocaleDirectionality.

Notice, that this only currently supports RTL and LTR, and does not cover TTB or BTT.

[rizzen-yazston]

At least RTL and LTR is support in the TTB line direction, which supports most scripts.