User Guide

830 Chapter 2: ActionScript Language Reference
System.capabilities.language
Availability
Flash Player 6. Behavior changed in Flash Player 7.
Usage
System.capabilities.language:String
Description
Read-only property; 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