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capabilities (System.capabilities) 315
language (capabilities.language property)
public static language : String [read-only]
Indicates the language of the system on which the player is running. This property is specified
as a lowercase two-letter language code from ISO 639-1. For Chinese, an additional uppercase
two-letter country code subtag from ISO 3166 distinguishes between Simplified and
Traditional Chinese. The languages themselves are named with the English tags. For example,
fr specifies French.
This property changed in two ways for Flash Player 7. First, the language code for English
systems no longer includes the country code. In Flash Player 6, all English systems return the
language code and the two-letter country code subtag (
en-US). In Flash Player 7, English
systems return only the language code (
en). Second, on Microsoft Windows systems this
property now returns the User Interface (UI) Language. In Flash Player 6 on the Microsoft
Windows platform, System.capabilities.language returns the User Locale, which controls
settings for formatting dates, times, currency and large numbers. In Flash Player 7 on the
Microsoft Windows platform, this property now returns the UI Language, which refers to the
language used for all menus, dialog boxes, error messages and help files.
Language Tag
Czech cs
Danish da
Dutch nl
English en
Finnish fi
French fr
German de
Hungarian hu
Italian it
Japanese ja
Korean ko
Norwegian no
Other/unknown xu
Polish pl
Portuguese pt
Russian ru