GetLocale

Retrieves the the string representation of the current locale

Method Signature

GetLocale()

Arguments

This function does not accept any arguments

Examples

Output current Locale than set it to swiss locale

writeOutput( getlocale() );
writeOutput( " → " );
setLocale( "de_ch" );
writeOutput( getlocale() );

Result: english (us) → german (swiss)

Additional Examples

var n = 1234.56;
writeOutput( getlocale() );
dump( dateTimeFormat( now() ) );
dump( LSdateTimeFormat( now() ) );
dump( numberFormat( n ) );
dump( LSnumberFormat( n ) );
writeOutput( " To " );
setLocale( "french(switzerland)" );
writeOutput( getlocale() );
dump( dateTimeFormat( now() ) );
dump( LSdateTimeFormat( now() ) );
dump( numberFormat( n ) );
dump( LSnumberFormat( n ) );
writeOutput( " To " );
setLocale( "German" );
writeOutput( getlocale() );
dump( dateTimeFormat( now() ) );
dump( LSdateTimeFormat( now() ) );
dump( numberFormat( n ) );
dump( LSnumberFormat( n ) );

Related

• GetLocaleDisplayName

• GetLocaleInfo

• SetLocale

• ParseCurrency

• LSParseCurrency

• ClearLocale

• CurrencyFormat

• LSCurrencyFormat

• IsCurrency

• LSIsCurrency