System Locale Information in AIR application

Hello,
I am building a Adobe AIR application which will have UI in different languages. To change the language in the UI we are setting resourceManager.localeChain property to the locale.
How can I get the system locale information at runtime so that the language can be set at runtime.
I am using Flex SDK 4.0.
Regards,
Karthik

It looks like if you do
var defaultLocaleID = new LocaleID(LocaleID.DEFAULT)
then you can get the language with defaultLocaleID.getLanguage() and the region with defaultLocaleID.getRegion(). But it doesn't give you a list of preferred locales.
Gordon Smith
Adobe Flex SDK Team

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