GetLocale  
 
 

Returns the locale for the current request. Locales are determined by the native operating system.

A locale is an encapsulation of the set of attributes that govern the display and formatting of international date, time, number, and currency values.

See also SetLocale.

 
 
  Syntax  
 
GetLocale()

 
 
  Locale support  
 

ColdFusion can be expected to support the following locales with a default Windows NT installation.

Locales Supported by ColdFusion
Dutch (Belgian) French (Canadian) Norwegian (Bokmal)
Dutch (Standard) French (Standard) Norwegian (Nynorsk)
English (Australian) French (Swiss) Portuguese (Brazilian)
English (Canadian) German (Austrian) Portuguese (Standard)
English (New Zealand) German (Standard) Spanish (Mexican)
English (UK) German (Swiss) Spanish (Modern)
English (US) Italian (Standard) Spanish (Standard)
French (Belgian) Italian (Swiss) Swedish

 
 
  Note  
 

The variable Server.ColdFusion.SupportedLocales is initialized at startup with a comma-delimited list of the locales that ColdFusion and the operating system support. GetLocale( ) will return an entry from that list. SetLocale will fail if called with a locale name not on that list.





 
 
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