getLocale

Gets the current geographic/language locale value.
To set the default display format of date, time, number, and
currency values in a CFML application session, you use
the SetLocale function.

getLocale() → returns string

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See Also:   getLocaleDisplayName   GetLocaleInfo   getLocaleCountry   getLocaleLanguage

Compatibility

Lucee:

DEPRECATED since version 5 Lucee5+ Deprecated in favor of getLocaleInfo()

Examples
Sample code invoking the getLocale function 

writeOutput(getlocale());
writeOutput(' → ');
setLocale('de_ch');
writeOutput(getlocale());

Expected Result: english (us) → german (swiss)

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