Auto-detect browser's language

[euroq]

Hello,

In javascript you can use

	    var lan = ((navigator.browserLanguage) ? 
	                navigator.browserLanguage : 
	                (navigator.language) ? navigator.language : navigator.userLanguage);

which will produce something like "EN-us" for American English or "PT-br" Brazilian Portuguese. Does anyone know of a way to dynamically discover the user's language in flash? Either through a similar property, or an operating system property?

Thanks!

[panel]

Capabilities.language

[roidelapatate]

Capabilities.language seems to reflect the language setting of the OS. Is there any way to get the browser language preference?
Cheers.

[sgartner]

Originally Posted by euroq

Hello,

In javascript you can use

	    var lan = ((navigator.browserLanguage) ? 
	                navigator.browserLanguage : 
	                (navigator.language) ? navigator.language : navigator.userLanguage);

which will produce something like "EN-us" for American English or "PT-br" Brazilian Portuguese. Does anyone know of a way to dynamically discover the user's language in flash? Either through a similar property, or an operating system property?

Thanks!

You could just create the flashVars dynamically in JavaScript as the page loads and pass in the browser language that way. Or inside Flash you could use ExternalInterface to communicate with the container and pull essentially the same variables.

[Tereba]

Originally Posted by roidelapatate

Capabilities.language seems to reflect the language setting of the OS. Is there any way to get the browser language preference?
Cheers.

hey roidelapatate,
did you manage to find the way to get the browser language preference into Flash ?
I have the same issue, where I would like to change the website's language to english or portuguese, depending of the browser language preference...
Thanks

[Arodicus]

Read my article on JavaScript Injection for one method of doing this through ActionScript 3's ExternalInterface Class.

Ignore the very first comment that claims it "no longer works" - the guy who wrote it didn't actually read the article

It's fairly easy to do, works fine in all browsers, and opens up the entire browser javascript environment to ActionScript.

[Tereba]

Thank you very much for stepping in Arodicus!
I decided to go the easy way - determining the language via OS.
My solution, to those who may have the same need, is:

if (System.capabilities.language == "pt") {		
			do something if language is portuguese;
		} else {
			do something else if language is not portuguese;
		}

I only appologize that the solution is for AS2, and I just realized this is the AS3 section of the forum... ... am not sure how this behaves for AS3...
best regards
Tereba