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Answer 1

+5 A:

apropos yeilds the command locale

10.4 and later though

Edit:

defaults read .GlobalPreferences AppleLanguages | tr -d [:space:] | cut -c2-3

is mentioned here. I don't have access to a 10.2 system though, so I don't know if it works.

cobbal 2009-03-19 12:00:18

Correct, I already ran across it but is only 10.4 and later, as you mention

Daniel Lopez 2009-03-19 12:04:46

Thanks for the suggestion. It does work in 10.2, but in returns English, whereas in the 10.3 and later returns the language code

Daniel Lopez 2009-03-19 12:28:41

defaults read -g AppleLocale works on 10.3 and later

Daniel Lopez 2009-03-19 12:30:02

thats odd, cut should make it always 2 characters

cobbal 2009-03-19 12:32:55

What I meant is that the language list in 10.2 is "English, French ..." whereas in 10.3 is "en, fr ..."

Daniel Lopez 2009-03-19 12:47:37

Answer 2

+2 A:

locale

or if that's not disponible

env | grep LC_

vartec 2009-03-19 12:03:16

Unfortunately, no LC_ are available either by default in many installs

Daniel Lopez 2009-03-19 12:05:50

How to detect current locale in Mac OS X from the shell