Jibber Jabber is a GoLang Library that can be used to detect an operating system's current language, plus helper functionalities for app development.
UNIX: GNU/Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD
via the LC_MESSAGES, LC_ALL and LANG environment variables. They are checked in the aforementioned order.
These variables are used in ALL versions of UNIX for language detection.
Windows
via GetUserDefaultLocaleName and GetSystemDefaultLocaleName system calls. These calls are supported in Windows Vista and up.
DetectIETF will return the current locale as a string. The format of the locale will be the ISO 639 two-letter language code, a DASH, then an ISO 3166 two-letter country code.
Example:
userLocale, err := jibberjabber.DetectIETF()
println("Locale:", userLocale)DetectLanguage will return the current language as a string. The format will be the ISO 639 two-letter language code.
also import the following packages for parsing the returned locale
"golang.org/x/text/language"
"golang.org/x/text/language/display"Example:
userLanguage, err := jibberjabber.DetectLanguage()
println("Language:", userLanguage)
languageTag, parseErr := language.Parse(userLanguage)
println("Language:", display.Self.Name(languageTag))
DetectLanguageTag will return the current language as a language tag as specified by "golang.org/x/text/language".
Example:
languageTag, parseErr := jibberjabber.DetectLanguageTag()
println("Language:", display.Self.Name(languageTag))
DetectTerritory will return the current locale territory as a string. The format will be the ISO 3166 two-letter country code.
Example:
localeTerritory, err := jibberjabber.DetectTerritory()
println("Territory:", localeTerritory)All the Detect commands will return an error if they are unable to read the Locale from the system.
For Windows, additional error information is provided due to the nature of the system call being used.
There is a singleton you can, but don't have to, use. It helps you define and later check which locales you support in your application - if not, apply a fallback language locale.
Example:
langServer := jibberjabber.LanguageServer()
langServer.SetSupportedLanguages(map[language.Tag]string{
language.German: "active.de.toml",
language.English: "active.en.toml",
}
langServer.SetFallbackLanguage(language.English)
langLocale, err := langServer.StringToSupportedLanguageTag("something") // returns `language.English`
if err != nil {
log.Printf("failed fetching supported language locale, use fallback language locale %q\n", display.Self.Name(langLocale))
}