Character order and measurement systems

babel/core.py

@@ -885,6 +885,40 @@ def ordinal_form(self):
         """
         return self._data.get('ordinal_form', _default_plural_rule)
 
+    @property
+    def measurement_systems(self):
+        """Localized names for various measurement systems.
+
+        >>> Locale('fr', 'FR').measurement_systems['US']
+        u'am\\xe9ricain'
+        >>> Locale('en', 'US').measurement_systems['US']
+        u'US'
+
+        """
+        return self._data['measurement_systems']
+
+    @property
+    def character_order(self):
+        """The text direction for the language.
+
+        >>> Locale('de', 'DE').character_order
+        'left-to-right'
+        >>> Locale('ar', 'SA').character_order
+        'right-to-left'
+        """
+        return self._data['character_order']
+
+    @property
+    def text_direction(self):
+        """The text direction for the language in CSS short-hand form.
+
+        >>> Locale('de', 'DE').text_direction
+        'ltr'
+        >>> Locale('ar', 'SA').text_direction
+        'rtl'
+        """
+        return ''.join(word[0] for word in self.character_order.split('-'))
+
 
 def default_locale(category=None, aliases=LOCALE_ALIASES):
     """Returns the system default locale for a given category, based on

scripts/import_cldr.py

@@ -421,6 +421,8 @@ def _process_local_datas(sup, srcdir, destdir, force=False, dump_json=False):
         parse_currency_names(data, tree)
         parse_unit_patterns(data, tree)
         parse_date_fields(data, tree)
+        parse_character_order(data, tree)
+        parse_measurement_systems(data, tree)
 
         write_datafile(data_filename, data, dump_json=dump_json)
 
@@ -839,6 +841,19 @@ def parse_day_period_rules(tree):
     return day_periods
 
 
+def parse_character_order(data, tree):
+    for elem in tree.findall('.//layout/orientation/characterOrder'):
+        data['character_order'] = elem.text
+
+
+def parse_measurement_systems(data, tree):
+    measurement_systems = data.setdefault('measurement_systems', {})
+    for measurement_system in tree.findall('.//measurementSystemNames/measurementSystemName'):
+        type = measurement_system.attrib['type']
+        if not _should_skip_elem(measurement_system, type=type, dest=measurement_systems):
+            _import_type_text(measurement_systems, measurement_system, type=type)
+
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     main()