Get locale/language of realm

[Crudor]

Is there any way to detect the language of the realm the user is currently on, with the WoW api?

So for example: I run an English client on a German realm. Can an addon know I'am on a German realm?

[winkies]

I think that the realm name are unique, so you could build N array (one per language) and check where the GetRealmName() belong to.

If someone know a sexier way to do that, I will gladly take his solution.

[Crudor]

unfortunately the names are not unique:
http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/status#name=dethecus and
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/status#name=dethecus

[Aleaa]

GetLocal()

enGB ptBR deDE esES frRF ruRU - Europe realms
enUS - US realms
znCH - China
koKR - Korea
zhTW - Taiwan

[Crudor]

GetLocale() returns enUS for EU english clients, too. so no identification possible with that either...

[Treeston]

Drycoded:

local function timezoneOffset()
    local realmHour,realmMin = GetGameTime()
    local utcHour, utcMin = tonumber(date("!%H")), tonumber(date("!%M"))
    local hourOffset = realmHour - utcHour
    local minOffset = realmMin - utcMin
    if minOffset < -30 then
        hourOffset = hourOffset - 1
    elseif minOffset > 30 then
        hourOffset = hourOffset + 1
    end
    return hourOffset
end

As long as the local clock is within 30 minutes of the server's clock, this should give you the time zone of the server.

From here, you have two options:
1) Assume everything below, say, UTC-3 is an US realm, and everything above UTC-3 is an EU realm. Other regions would require adjustments.
2) Keep a database of every realm name, all occurrences of that realm name and the respective server time zones. First index with GetRealmName(), then check for the closest match (or assume a default language [english? the client's locale?] if no exact match is found).

PS: Someone should make a library that does this.

[Aleaa]

GetCVar("locale")

[Crudor]

thanks, this should do the trick (even though having to maintain a table of all realms is somewhat clunky...)

[winkies]

This is indeed a good idea for a lib. I will look at this tomorrow (I will create a new thread as soon as I have something correct.)