[flexcoders] How to get the right locale in IE?

[michael_regert]

I'm trying to get the locale from IE 9.  I've written the following, but it is 
not working as expected.  In IE 9, I can add more than one language, so I can 
add [de], then [de_DE], then [en_US] (listed in that order).

If I call 'navigator.userLanguage.toString', then IE returns en-us, even though 
I know German is listed first and working (Google comes up in German).  I 
thought maybe it was because it was trying to return an Array of languages, so 
I changed my code to look for an Array or an Object.  Nothing works.


var l10NCodes:Object = null;
var l10nCode:String = null;

/* Try to get the language code from the browser first.  The browser returns 
both
the language code and the country code rather than just the language code 
alone. */
if (ExternalInterface.available) {
   l10NCodes = ExternalInterface.call('navigator.userLanguage');
   l10nCode = ExternalInterface.call('navigator.userLanguage.toString');
}




Michael J. Regert

Re: [flexcoders] How to get the right locale in IE?

[Alex Harui]

The first thing I’d do is write a test html page with some JS and try to get it 
to alert the right answer.


On 12/15/11 1:22 PM, michael_reg...@dell.com michael_reg...@dell.com wrote:






I’m trying to get the locale from IE 9.  I’ve written the following, but it is 
not working as expected.  In IE 9, I can add more than one language, so I can 
add [de], then [de_DE], then [en_US] (listed in that order).

If I call 'navigator.userLanguage.toString', then IE returns en-us, even though 
I know German is listed first and working (Google comes up in German).  I 
thought maybe it was because it was trying to return an Array of languages, so 
I changed my code to look for an Array or an Object.  Nothing works.


var l10NCodes:Object = null;
var l10nCode:String = null;

/* Try to get the language code from the browser first.  The browser returns 
both
the language code and the country code rather than just the language code 
alone. */

if (ExternalInterface.available) {
   l10NCodes = ExternalInterface.call('navigator.userLanguage');
 ! ;  l10nCode = ExternalInterface.call('navigator.userLanguage.toString');
}





Michael J. Regert






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Alex Harui
Flex SDK Team
Adobe System, Inc.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

Re: [flexcoders] How to get the right locale in IE?

[Paul Hastings]

On 12/16/2011 4:22 AM, michael_reg...@dell.com said:

 I’m trying to get the locale from IE 9. I’ve written the following, but it is
 not working as expected. In IE 9, I can add more than one language, so I can 
 add
 [de], then [de_DE], then [en_US] (listed in that order).

if you have something server side, i'd parse HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE  return that 
to your flex app.

Re: [flexcoders] How to get the right locale in IE?

[Paul Hastings]

oops, and you might also look at IP to location/locale as well.