…or at least help me find the user preferenced language setting!

recently we have been developing a bookmarklet app that is dependant on user language settings, in order to return the information appropriately.
the database we have been working with (not ours) had it’s language field as an enum with only  2 character representation of the user language ie: en, fr… …and so on.

heres the deal.
safari and opera return navigator.language as a 2 character identifier, this is good (en, fr…)
firefox returns navigator.language as a detailed region character identifier (en-US)
internet explorer returns navigator.userLanguage similar to firefox, just all lower case (en-us)

so here is our 2 character return solution.

function Language()
{
// laguage string from navigator
var string        = !navigator.userLanguage ? navigator.language : navigator.userLanguage;

// regex & match
var regex        = /[\w]{2}/g;
var links        = string.match(regex);

// return the first 2 charachters (en, fr…)
return string.match(regex)[0];
}

try it out

!console ? alert(Language()) : console.log(Language());

enjoy!