diff --git a/lib/direction_detector.rb b/lib/direction_detector.rb
index c5aa4575d..0ea8703cb 100644
--- a/lib/direction_detector.rb
+++ b/lib/direction_detector.rb
@@ -5,6 +5,20 @@
 # Deeply inspired by https://gitorious.org/statusnet/mainline/blobs/master/plugins/DirectionDetector/DirectionDetectorPlugin.php
 
 class String
+  RTL_RANGES = [
+      [1536, 1791], # arabic, persian, urdu, kurdish, ...
+      [65136, 65279], # arabic peresent 2
+      [64336, 65023], # arabic peresent 1
+      [1424, 1535], # hebrew
+      [64256, 64335], # hebrew peresent
+      [1792, 1871], # syriac
+      [1920, 1983], # thaana
+      [1984, 2047], # nko
+      [11568, 11647] # tifinagh
+    ]
+  RTL_CLEANER_REGEXES = [ /@[^ ]+|#[^ ]+/u, # mention, tag
+      /^RT[: ]{1}| RT | RT: |[♺♻:]/u # retweet
+    ]
 
   def is_rtl?
     return false if self.strip.empty?
@@ -23,9 +37,7 @@ class String
   # Diaspora specific
   def cleaned_is_rtl?
     string = String.new(self)
-    [ /@[^ ]+|#[^ ]+/u, # mention, tag
-      /^RT[: ]{1}| RT | RT: |[♺♻:]/u # retweet
-    ].each do |cleaner|
+    RTL_CLEANER_REGEXES.each do |cleaner|
       string.gsub!(cleaner, '')
     end
     string.is_rtl?
@@ -34,18 +46,7 @@ class String
   def starts_with_rtl_char?(string = self)
     return false if string.strip.empty?
     char = string.strip.unpack('U*').first
-    limits = [
-      [1536, 1791], # arabic, persian, urdu, kurdish, ...
-      [65136, 65279], # arabic peresent 2
-      [64336, 65023], # arabic peresent 1
-      [1424, 1535], # hebrew
-      [64256, 64335], # hebrew peresent
-      [1792, 1871], # syriac
-      [1920, 1983], # thaana
-      [1984, 2047], # nko
-      [11568, 11647] # tifinagh
-    ]
-    limits.each do |limit|
+    RTL_RANGES.each do |limit|
       return true if char >= limit[0] && char <= limit[1]
     end
     return false