Language reporting "es" on "en" device?

Solar2D iOS
#1

I’m using system.getPreference( "locale", "language" ) to get the device language in an app and it seems like it can report the wrong language.

Has anybody seen something like this?

#2

Getting it this way seems to work though…

local systemLanguage = system.getPreference( "ui", "language" ) or "en-US"
systemLanguage = systemLanguage:sub(1,2) -- another way to get the language
#3

FYI…

-- Print the operating system's read-only preferences

print ( system.getPreference( "ui" , "language" ) ) -- Print the UI (device) language, i.e. "en-US"

print ( system.getPreference( "locale" , "country" ) ) -- Print the locale country, i.e. "US"

print ( system.getPreference( "locale" , "identifier" ) ) -- Print the locale language identifier, i.e. "en_US"

print ( system.getPreference( "locale" , "language" ) ) -- Print the locale language code, i.e. "en"

#4

That’s my issue. print ( system.getPreference( "locale" , "language" ) ) prints “es” on a device that should be “en”

print ( system.getPreference( "ui" , "language" ) ) prints “en-US” on the same device.

Can’t tell if it’s a setting on my phone, or a Solar2D bug.

#5

@ponywolf - I found this reference on the Oracle website: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-0169/6j9hsml2f/index.html

  1. A locale can be composed of both a base language, the country (territory) of use, and possibly codeset (which is usually assumed). For example, German is de, an abbreviation for Deutsch, while Swiss German is de_CH, CH being an abbreviation for Confederation Helvetica. This allows for specific differences by country, such as currency units notation.

  2. What this means is that if I were to buy a device in one country, but use it in a different country with a different language, there will be differences. For example, I often see UK devices that pay for purchases in USD. How can that happen? The locale is different from the country of origin, it seems to me.

Good luck!

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