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4389	BIDI language detection not smart enough	Ahmad Alhashemi	Jannis Leidel	"one of my projects, I'm using a LANGUAGE_CODE of 'ar-kw' (Arabic-Kuwait). We already have an Arabic translation (ar) and it is being appropriately used. The problem is that my language code is not being detected as a right to left language. It has to be exactly 'ar' or it will not be detected.

Maybe we can bring some of the smartness of gettext into detecting the direction of text too?

There is a function in gettext called _expand_lang. It takes the locale as a single argument and returns a list of possible names for this locale, so that ar_KW will return a list containing ar_KW, ar and other locales."		closed	Internationalization	dev		fixed	bidi rtl sprintdec01		Accepted	1	0	0	0	0	0