| capabilities.language Property | Flash 6 |
| the current language setting on the operating system | read/write | System.capabilities.language
Description The string language property contains a two-letter code representing the language used for text on the operating system. The cross-platform codes used are a subset of those in the ISO-639-1 standard, "Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages" (see http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/englangn.html). For example, "en" indicates English, and "fr" indicates French. Where applicable, language also includes a two-letter country code indicating the local variant of the language, as defined by ISO 3166 (see http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html). A hyphen separates the language code from the country code, if both are present. For example, "en-UK" indicates English, United Kingdom variant. By checking the language setting, a movie can intelligently provide text in the appropriate language for the user's system. Multiple language assets can be embedded directly into a single movie or loaded dynamically as variables, XML, or entire movies. The corresponding server string for language is LAN, with possible values listed in Table 18-4. See capabilities.serverString for details. Table 18-4. Flash language codes | English, United States | en | US | | English, United Kingdom | en | UK | | French | fr | | | Korean | ko | | | Japanese | ja | | | Swedish | sv | | | German | de | | | Spanish | es | | | Italian | it | | | Simplified Chinese | zh | CN | | Traditional Chinese | zh | TW | | Portuguese | pt | | | Polish | pl | | | Hungarian | hu | | | Czech | cs | | | Turkish | tr | | | Finnish | fi | | | Danish | da | | | Norwegian | no | | | Dutch | nl | | | Russian | ru | | | Other/Unknown | xu | | Bugs The English language country codes (UK and US) are not properly set by all versions of Flash Player 6; In both countries, System.capabilities.language returns "en" and does not include a country code. Example The following code loads the English or French version of a movie, depending on the current language setting: if (System.capabilities.language.substring(0,2) = = "en") { trace("English language"); content_mc.loadMovie("news-english.swf"); } else if (System.capabilities.language = = "fr") { trace("French language"); content_mc.loadMovie("news-french.swf"); } See Also Character Encoding," in Chapter 4 | 
