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Returns a short label for the current keyboard input language.<br />
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label = GetInputLanguageString()<br />
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== Arguments ==<br />
None.<br />
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== Returns ==<br />
;label : <code>wstring</code> – One or two characters naming the input language.<br />
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== Details ==<br />
* The label is chosen from the active keyboard layout:<br />
** Korean: <code>가</code><br />
** Japanese: <code>あ</code><br />
** Chinese, simplified: <code>简</code><br />
** Chinese, traditional: <code>繁</code><br />
** Any other language: the first two letters of the Windows abbreviated language name, the second one in lower case (for example <code>En</code> for English, <code>De</code> for German).<br />
* Before the client has read the keyboard layout for the first time, the label is <code>EN</code>.<br />
* The function returns the label the client last stored; it does not query Windows itself.<br />
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== Errors ==<br />
None.<br />
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== Example ==<br />
Showing the label on the chat window's language button, from <code>default/ea_chatwindow/source/chatwindow.lua</code>:<br />
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local languageStateStr = GetInputLanguageString()<br />
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ButtonSetText("EA_TextEntryGroupEntryBoxLanguageButton", towstring(languageStateStr))<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[API:ToggleLanguageState|ToggleLanguageState]]</div>Maintenance script