API:GetInputLanguageString

UI Lua API · Chat functions
Version: WAR 1.4.8

Returns a short label for the current keyboard input language.

label = GetInputLanguageString()

Arguments

None.

Returns

label

wstring – One or two characters naming the input language.

Details

• The label is chosen from the active keyboard layout:
  • Korean: 가
  • Japanese: あ
  • Chinese, simplified: 简
  • Chinese, traditional: 繁
  • Any other language: the first two letters of the Windows abbreviated language name, the second one in lower case (for example En for English, De for German).
• Before the client has read the keyboard layout for the first time, the label is EN.
• The function returns the label the client last stored; it does not query Windows itself.

Errors

None.

Example

Showing the label on the chat window's language button, from default/ea_chatwindow/source/chatwindow.lua:

local languageStateStr = GetInputLanguageString()

ButtonSetText("EA_TextEntryGroupEntryBoxLanguageButton", towstring(languageStateStr))

See also

• ToggleLanguageState