import { useLocale } from '@automattic/i18n-utils'; import { useI18n } from '@wordpress/react-i18n'; import * as React from 'react'; import { switchWebpackCSS } from '../../../lib/i18n-utils/switch-locale'; export const WindowLocaleEffectManager: React.FunctionComponent = () => { const { __, _x, isRTL } = useI18n(); const locale = useLocale(); // Some languages may need to set an html lang attribute that is different from their slug let lang = __( 'html_lang_attribute' ); // Some languages don't have the translation for html_lang_attribute // or maybe we are dealing with the default `en` locale. Return the general purpose locale slug if ( lang === 'html_lang_attribute' ) { lang = locale; } React.useEffect( () => { document.documentElement.lang = lang; }, [ lang ] ); // This line is required to make `isRTL()` work as expected for chunked translations: // The `./bin/build-languages.js` script scans our codebase for calls to __() and puts only the neccessary strings // in `./public/calypso-strings.pot`. Internally, isRTL() uses the translation for `ltr` to determine the text direction. // But because isRTL is defined in the `@wordpress/i18n` package, our `./bin/build-languages.js` script // does not know to include `ltr` in `./public/calypso-strings.pot`. // see https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/pull/43132#discussion_r448537345 _x( 'ltr', 'text direction' ); const isRtl = isRTL(); React.useEffect( () => { document.documentElement.dir = isRtl ? 'rtl' : 'ltr'; document.body.classList[ isRtl ? 'add' : 'remove' ]( 'rtl' ); switchWebpackCSS( isRtl ); }, [ isRtl ] ); return null; };