locale.name

locale.name is a function that is part of the Locale Library.

The function returns the name of the current locale.

Syntax

locale.name()
returns the name of the current local. It normally returns a two-letter language code, but in some cases it also contains a two-letter country code (ISO-639).

For instance: en, fr, it, nl_be, fr_be

Example

lang = locale.name() --Puts the current locale name in lang