Detecting Original System Language and Matching to Available Locale

[jGate99]

Hi there,

Let’s say a user has selected a locale different from his system.

At runtime, I want to determine the user’s system language and find the closest matching locale from the available locales to present as an option to the user.

Please advise

[karl_jones]

Hi,
It sounds like you are trying to reproduce the SystemLocaleSelector behaviour.
Whilst this is used to select a locale at startup it can also be used to do what you want.
Do something like this:

var systemLocaleSelector = LocalizationSettings.StartupLocaleSelectors.FirstOrDefault(s => s is SystemLocaleSelector) ?? new SystemLocaleSelector();
var foundLocale = systemLocaleSelector.GetStartupLocale(LocalizationSettings.AvailableLocales);

This will find the closest locale to the system language from the list of AvailableLocales.

[jGate99]

@karl_jones

Hi,
It sounds like you are trying to reproduce the SystemLocaleSelector behaviour.
Whilst this is used to select a locale at startup it can also be used to do what you want.
Do something like this:

var systemLocaleSelector = LocalizationSettings.StartupLocaleSelectors.FirstOrDefault(s => s is SystemLocaleSelector) ?? new SystemLocaleSelector();
var foundLocale = systemLocaleSelector.GetStartupLocale(LocalizationSettings.AvailableLocales);

This will find the closest locale to the system language from the list of AvailableLocales.

Thanks, really appreciate
With above, now i can show user a “prefered language to switch”