Get the current language in device

[mac767Participant]

Hi,

is there any build-in possibility to get the current selected system langauage at runtime?
I want to pre-select the language of my app at first start to the system language (English, German, …).

[nerobotParticipant]

There is no.

Mark recently closed the issue https://github.com/blitz-research/monkey2/issues/136

don’t know why.

[coconParticipant]

Perhaps there would be a new need for a module be created called “Localization”.

I have spent a few minutes creating a module to let you get the raw system locale (you will have to interpret it with custom rules in your program).

Basically it depends on this: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clocale/setlocale/

But of course the module will have to properly designed and planned so it contains various useful features and a reasonable API. We can throw a bunch of high level ideas and then use them as a placeholder for implementation.

Monkey

#Import "<std>" #Import "<localization>" Using localization Function Main() Print("Testing Localization") Local language := GetLanguage() Print(language) End

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#Import "<std>" #Import "<localization>" Using localization   Function Main() Print("Testing Localization") Local language := GetLanguage() Print(language) End

Attachments:

1. localization.zip

[mac767Participant]

Hi cocon,

thanks for sharing.

I have to change the module.json this way to get the module availabe in Ted module manager:

Monkey

{ "module":"localization", "about":"Localization module for Language / Currency / Formatting / Alignment / ETC/Calendar", "author":"", "version":"0.0.1", "support":"WIP - NOT READY YET", "depends":["std"] }

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{ "module":"localization", "about":"Localization module for Language / Currency / Formatting / Alignment / ETC/Calendar", "author":"", "version":"0.0.1", "support":"WIP - NOT READY YET", "depends":["std"] }

The return value are fine on my Windows machine but my tests on an Android 7 device failed. Android returns unfortunately ‘C.UTF-8’.

Anyway thanks a lot for your effort!

[coconParticipant]

Hmm, it’s bad that it does not work.

It seems that for android we would have to interface with Java SDK.

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