getLocale equivalent in javascript

[SanjivaniPant]

Hi,

Does anybody know how to get client locale in javascript. I know vbscript GetLocale function but I am searching its equivalent in javascript.

Some sites have mentioned using getLocale(request). Here request is HTTPRequest object but I can not make HTTP Request object in javascript. Please tell me how to use it.

Thanks
Sanjivani

[acoder]

With JavaScript, some browsers support browser/user/systemLanguage/language properties of the Navigator object. See this example.

[SanjivaniPant]

With JavaScript, some browsers support browser/user/systemLanguage/language properties of the Navigator object. See this example.

Hi.

Thanks for your reply.. I want client machine locale, not browser langauge. navigotor will give me browser language. If I use sysemlangauge then it works in IE but not in mozilla :(

How about making http request and getting detail from http request header? At present I am searching for how to read http request header in javascript. If you know, please share your knowledge.

~Sanjivani

[acoder]

You can use just navigator.language in Mozilla/Firefox.

When you make an http request, would that not be for the server?

[SanjivaniPant]

You can use just navigator.language in Mozilla/Firefox.

When you make an http request, would that not be for the server?

We can make request from javascript. Have a look onto following link.
http://www.jibbering.com/2002/4/httprequest.html

I could manage to make http request but I could not see system language in response :(

navigator.language will give me broswer langauge or client system language?

Thanks
Sanjivani

[SanjivaniPant]

navigator.language in mozilla always returns en-US

¬Sanjivani

[acoder]

Give an example of what you want returned.

[SanjivaniPant]

Give an example of what you want returned.

I want to know what is the language set in regional setting on client machine. If client machine has UK regional setting then I want to know that even browser usess US. So I want javascript code for this which should run on mozilla, IE, Safari, Opera.

¬Sanjivani

[acoder]

I don't think there's a cross-browser way to get this information using JavaScript, but I could be be proved wrong.

The http request would be to the server, not the client.

[SanjivaniPant]

I don't think there's a cross-browser way to get this information using JavaScript, but I could be be proved wrong.

The http request would be to the server, not the client.

Right, but request will be from client to server. So we can make XMLHTTPRequest object in javascript for a dummy page. But Only thing I could not figure out is , how to read request header.

 var xmlhttp=false;
if (!xmlhttp && typeof XMLHttpRequest!='undefined') {
    try {
        xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
    } catch (e) {
        xmlhttp=false;
    }
}
if (!xmlhttp && window.createRequest) {
    try {
        xmlhttp = window.createRequest();
    } catch (e) {
        xmlhttp=false;
    }
}
xmlhttp.open("HEAD", "ReturnHeader.htm",true);
 xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() {
  if (xmlhttp.readyState==4) {
   //alert(xmlhttp.getRequestHeader(0));
//Here we have to write code of getting request header, but how? gerRquestHeader method is failing here
  }
 }
 xmlhttp.send(null)

[acoder]

I don't think you can get the request header. You can get the response header, but that's probably not much use for you here.