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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
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 (
only the language code (
the User Interface (UI) Language. In Flash Player 6 on the Microsoft Windows platform,
System.capabilities.language
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
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Other/unknown
Polish
Portuguese
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specifies French.
. Second, on Microsoft Windows systems this property now returns
en)
returns the User Locale, which controls settings for
Tag
cs
da
nl
en
fi
fr
de
hu
it
ja
ko
no
xu
pl
pt
. In Flash Player 7, English systems return
en-US)