All Over Software Jobs: Re: [flexcoders] How to get the right locale in IE?

Friday, December 16, 2011

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_regert@dell.com" <michael_regert@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