Find out OS language via datestr command?
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Hi folks,
i wonder if the datestr command can help finding out the operating system's basic language.
I can only test the German and English version at my system via:
datestr('05/01/2000','mmmm','local')
If the result is "may", it is English. If it is "mai", it is German.
I wonder if this also works in Spanish and Swedish home countries e.g.. Who can help me find out? What local settings are respected inside the datestr command?
To be more precise: I want information about the language, which is used to display the Windows 7 startmenu-ribbon with "documents", "images", "music", "computer", "system", ... or (German): "Dokumente", "Bilder", "Musik", ...
Regards, Johannes
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Jan
on 4 Jun 2013
Edited: Jan
on 5 Jun 2013
What about:
get(0, 'Language')
I assume this is the way datestr() gets the information also.
[EDITED] What about the Java method:
System.getProperty("user.language")
Or perhaps (I cannot test it currently):
locale = java.util.Locale.getDefault();
language = locale.getLanguage()
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Friedrich
on 5 Jun 2013
HI,
what about:
>> java.lang.System.getProperty('user.language')
ans =
de
>> java.lang.System.getProperty('user.country')
ans =
DE
Not sure which one is needed exactly here. Could someone with an non German OS try that?
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Friedrich
on 5 Jun 2013
Edited: Friedrich
on 5 Jun 2013
Sorry havent seen that.
But overall that wont work because it depends on the System's Regional Settings. Just the location setting of your system wont help. When your regional setting is DE but your language is set to english you will get DE as answer from JAVA but you actually have an english language OS.
See also here:
The ONLY reliable thing on WIndows is:
>>System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.ThreeLetterWindowsLanguageName
Daniel Shub
on 4 Jun 2013
Edited: Daniel Shub
on 4 Jun 2013
You probably can, but it seems really silly to try. On Linux you can do
! echo $LANG
For Windows, I don't know an easy one line answer, but you could parse
! wmic os get locale
or
! wmic os get oslanguage
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