language

A language is composed of a primary language (for example, Swiss) and a sub-language (for example, Swiss German).

Creation
Properties
Casts

Version	Platforms
8.0.584.0	AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris, Windows
8.1.535.0	Debian, Ubuntu
9.5.13.130	Raspbian

Creation

system locale : language

Determines which bitmap fonts, and OEM, ANSI, and MAC code pages are defaults for the system. This only affects applications that are not fully Unicode.

Plural: system locales

Version	Platforms
8.0.584.0	AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris, Windows
8.1.535.0	Debian, Ubuntu
9.5.13.130	Raspbian

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system ui language : language

Returns the default language of menus, dialogs, messages and help files. This is identified using the GetSystemDefaultUILanguage function.

Q: system ui language
A: English (United States)

Plural: system ui languages

Version	Platforms
8.0.584.0	AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris, Windows
8.1.535.0	Debian, Ubuntu
9.5.13.130	Raspbian

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user locale : language

Determines which settings are used for formatting dates, times, currency, and numbers as a default for each user. Also determines the sort order for sorting text.

Plural: user locales

Version	Platforms
8.0.584.0	Windows

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user ui language : language

Returns the language of menus, dialogs, messages, and help files for the SYSTEM user. This is identified using the GetUserDefaultUILanguage function.

Q: user ui language
A: English (United States)

Plural: user ui languages

Version	Platforms
8.0.584.0	Windows

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Properties

platform id of <language> : string

Returns the the language identifier of the system language. The string is of the form en_US.UTF-8.

Q: platform id of system locale
A: en

Plural: platform ids

Version	Platforms
8.0.584.0	AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris
8.1.535.0	Debian, Ubuntu
9.5.13.130	Raspbian

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primary codeset of <language> : string

No documentation exists.

Plural: primary codesets

Version	Platforms
9.0.586.0	AIX, Debian, HP-UX, Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris, Ubuntu
9.5.13.130	Raspbian

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primary country of <language> : string

No documentation exists.

Plural: primary countries

Version	Platforms
9.0.586.0	AIX, Debian, HP-UX, Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris, Ubuntu
9.5.13.130	Raspbian

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primary language of <language> : primary language

Extracts the primary language identifier from a language.

Plural: primary languages

Version	Platforms
8.0.584.0	AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris, Windows
8.1.535.0	Debian, Ubuntu
9.5.13.130	Raspbian

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Casts

<language> as string : string

Returns the language of the system locale.

Version	Platforms
8.0.584.0	AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris, Windows
8.1.535.0	Debian, Ubuntu
9.5.13.130	Raspbian

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