From 2d63a0090aba1e09f09d19a93beb8702999a5e8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: George Cushen <gcushen@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 22:25:03 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add initial RTL language support

---
 data/i18n/rtl.toml           | 2 ++
 layouts/_default/baseof.html | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 data/i18n/rtl.toml

diff --git a/data/i18n/rtl.toml b/data/i18n/rtl.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e1b44c52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/i18n/rtl.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# List of ISO 639-1 language codes for which text is directed from right to left.
+rtl = ["ar", "fa", "he", "ur"]
diff --git a/layouts/_default/baseof.html b/layouts/_default/baseof.html
index ba50dc71..249dba8a 100644
--- a/layouts/_default/baseof.html
+++ b/layouts/_default/baseof.html
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE html>
-<html lang="{{ site.LanguageCode | default "en-us" }}">
+{{- $language_code := site.LanguageCode | default "en-us" -}}
+<html lang="{{$language_code}}" {{ if in site.Data.i18n.rtl.rtl $language_code }}dir="rtl"{{end}}>
 
 {{ partial "site_head" . }}
 <body id="top" data-spy="scroll" data-offset="70" data-target="{{ if or .IsHome (eq .Type "widget_page") }}#navbar-main{{else}}#TableOfContents{{end}}" {{ if not (.Scratch.Get "light") }}class="dark"{{end}}>