A way to get Obsidian’s currently set language?

Developers: Plugin & API
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I’m bilingual and switch Obsidian languages quite often. We do have different number formats in UK and Germany, so I’d like to use JS .toLocaleString(undefined, {maximumFractionDigits: 1}) with the language Obsidian is set to, not my OS’s language.

Unfortunately, using undefined decides to use German (de-DE), and navigator.language also returns de when Obsidian runs in English.

It makes a difference seeing 4,096.0 vs 4.096,0 …

Any insights on how to get that language setting, preferably in the en-GB (or en-UK or de-DE or de-AT …) format?

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I’m not sure what the “right way” is, but one possibility is to use moment.locale(). It’ll return whatever language obsidian is set to.

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Cheers, that’s perfect, since I use moment.js anyway for date calculations! Much appreciated.

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For whatever odd reason, this now seems to be broken in 0.12.4, see New with 0.12.4: Moment.locale() sticks at "en" even when I switch Obsidian to another language.

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So I just discovered you can retrieve the language as it’s set in obsidian with this:

const lang = window.localStorage.getItem('language');

This will return one of these language codes:

en: "English",
zh: "简体中文",
"zh-TW": "繁體中文",
ru: "Pусский",
ko: "한국어",
it: "Italiano",
id: "Bahasa Indonesia",
ro: "Română",
"pt-BR": "Portugues do Brasil",
cz: "čeština",
de: "Deutsch",
es: "Español",
fr: "Français",
no: "Norsk",
pl: "język polski",
pt: "Português",
ja: "日本語",
da: "Dansk",
uk: "Український",
sq: "Shqip",
tr: "Türkçe (kısmi)",
hi: "हिन्दी (आंशिक)",
nl: "Nederlands (gedeeltelijk)",
ar: "العربية (جزئي)"

if lang is null, then the language is English.

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