Get Locale country and language codes

Question

I have checked the documentation, but nothing is jumping out
at me. Is there a function that returns the locale country and
language codes? GetLocale() returns the "locale name as it is
represented in ColdFusion":
ie:
English (US)
Spanish (Standard)
What I am looking for is the
ISO
codes
en US
es ES
I can get the information using getPageContext(), but just
wondered if I was overlooking a built-in CF function.

Answer 1

-==cfSearching==- wrote:
> The problem with the functions I have seen is that they
return
locale name
> as it is represented in ColdFusion (ie English (US)
). But what I am
> looking for the ISO language and country codes.
...hmm this didn't go thru on the 16th. let me try again.
that should only be for the "traditional" cf supported
locales (backwards
compatibility is always foremost in the cf team's minds), the
rest should be in
normal java style locale ID (th_TH, ar_AE, etc).
no, there's nothing built-in in cf for what you want. you'll
have to dip down
into java:
<cfscript>
localeObj=createObject("java","java.util.Locale");
locales=localeObj.getAvailableLocales();
writeOutput("<table border='1'>");
writeOutput("<tr align='center'><td
colspan='2'>Locale</td><td>Language</td><td>Country</td></tr>");
for (i=1; i LTE arrayLen(locales);i=i+1) {
thisLocale=locales
thisLanguage=thisLocale.getLanguage();
thisCountry=thisLocale.getCountry();
writeOutput("<td>#thisLocale.toString()#</td><td>#thisLocale.getDisplayName()#</td><td>#t hisLanguage#</td><td>#thisCountry#</td></tr>");
writeOutput("</table>");
</cfscript>
note that this snippet doesn't show variants (eg. th_TH_TH)
& shows language
only locales (en, fr, etc.), nor is it sorted in any order i
can recognize. also
keep in mind that what this shows depends on the server's JRE
version. if you
want a "better" source of locales, use the icu4j lib's
ULocale class. it's based
on the latest CLDR & contains way more locales (and they
actually tend to fix
locale bugs in your lifetime).