Get region from iOS preferences

Targets iOS
1

How can I get the current region from iOS settings? Not the language from settings like “en-US”, the region like “United States” or “Germany”.

2

Xojo.Core.Locale?

3

No.

Get the current locale:

Dim currentLocale As Xojo.Core.Locale
currentLocale = Xojo.Core.Locale.Current

Shows: en-US, de-DE, de-AT

This is the language, not the region.

This is the value that I want:

4

Your getting local Identifier which you can then use to do and query anything you like.

To get string (description) like is on Region Screen sample you can create memory table which will holds values from bellow url

http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php

http://www.lingoes.net/en/translator/langcode.htm

More info about local part you can find on:
http://developer.xojo.com/xojo-core-locale

5

No, that is not what I want. I know the ISO639 codes and the description on developer.apple.com. On and iOS device the user can set the language for his device to German, France, Spain or any other and set the region to “Europe”, “Spain”, “Australia” or “United States” in the region settings (see picture on the first entry). This is the value that I want to check with an iOS app.

A user can set German language for the display language and set his region to “United States” .

6

You can identify language.
I understand what you want.
You want to have values of what is current local language and current region.

7

Current local language is no problem, but the region from the settings.

8

Guess maybe they forgot to implement that… :wink:

9

see regionCode | Apple Developer Documentation

The locale string such as en-US literally means “english language using US regional settings”
If a user

The locale string would be “de-US”

The locale string tells you everything you need

10

Okay. Thank you. Now I use this:

Dim currentLocale As Xojo.Core.Locale
currentLocale = Xojo.Core.Locale.Current
dim LanguageCode as text = currentLocale.Identifier.Right(2).Uppercase

select case LanguageCode

case “AF”
//
case “EG”
//
case “AL”
…
else
//
End Select

11

The first part is the language - not the last part
The last is the region

I’m not certain you can rely on “right(2)” to get the region code

I’d have to do a lot more research on how Apple has implemented locale’s to know if you can ever get any of the other allowable tags for a language tag. Some can use 2 letter OR 3 digit codes

A setting like "zh-Hant-HK” should be “traditional chinese” (zh-hant) in the hong kong region (HK)

BCP 47 (see https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp47)
Esp the part about how the lang tag is composed
Its horribly messy

12

You can get it like this in objective c:

NSString *countryCode = [[NSLocale currentLocale] objectForKey: NSLocaleCountryCode];

For iOS 10 and newer even easier:

NSString *countryCode = [[NSLocale currentLocale] countryCode];

I just can’t translate this into a Xojo Declare for you…