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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Can confirm this works completely as expected when the user's system is set to lang=ES.

[–] Schmeckinger@feddit.de 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Simple save the users language setting in a variable, change it to english, check if the first letter is "s" and then change the language back.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago
[–] Cosmicomical@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

true but that's a precondition to some of the other examples as well