Detect Current Region

[Lombra]

But for any EU realm, the EU realm list will be used, no? Am I missing the point?

[jaliborc]

Originally Posted by Vlad Blizzard define your realmList to a domain where your login server is located. Luckily they prefix it, but they CAN use an IP directly breaking the code. It might also be different for Chinese servers. For example http://wowchina.com/ don't even use the prefix like the us/eu does, so keep this in mind. The Chinese realmlist is cn#.grunt.wowchina.com

Thanks or the heads up.

Originally Posted by Lombra But for any EU realm, the EU realm list will be used, no? Am I missing the point?

Basically, it will work as long as we don't assume realmlists start all with the same format. One might simply check the entire realmlist string, for example.

[Rainrider]

Is it possible to get the server locale? Like deDE or something if it is a german server.

Btw: GetCVar("installLocale") is the same as GetLocale(). If you need to diffentiate between enUS/enGB then use GetCVar("locale") instead. Those are just the language preference of the client though.

[Resike]

Originally Posted by Rainrider Is it possible to get the server locale? Like deDE or something if it is a german server. Btw: GetCVar("installLocale") is the same as GetLocale(). If you need to diffentiate between enUS/enGB then use GetCVar("locale") instead. Those are just the language preference of the client though.

Nope, the insallLocale is the language of your game's disc, but since they were shipping enUS disc to enGB too its enUS for users in Europe too. At least is should be different for chinese and korean users.

The GetCVar("locale") could work that was my second tought.

[jaliborc]

I think realmlist is really the way to go, and has been working son far for me. I'm want to detect connected servers, so I don't care about languages. If one really wants to know if a server is enUS or enGB, or if it is esES or esMX, I guess the solution is to use the realmlist and GetLocale in conjunction.

[Phanx]

Originally Posted by jaliborc If one really wants to know if a server is enUS or enGB, or if it is esES or esMX, I guess the solution is to use the realmlist and GetLocale in conjunction.

GetLocale actually returns "esES" or "esMX" as appropriate, as those are separate localizations with a few differences in their translations (eg. a different word for "dungeon" is used).

However, it does return "enUS" in an enGB client, and "ptBR" in a ptPT client, as there are not actually separate localizations for the EU variants of English and Portuguese; they just use the enUS and ptBR translations, so in those cases you would need to use the realmlist if you need to distinguish between them.

Originally Posted by Resike Nope, the insallLocale is the language of your game's disc, but since they were shipping enUS disc to enGB too its enUS for users in Europe too. At least is should be different for chinese and korean users.

The installLocale is whatever language the user chose when they first downloaded the installer, which can be any language the game is playable in. If anyone is actually still buying physical discs, I know the expansions are available in languages other than English; I'd assume the base game or "battle chest" or whatever they're calling it now is too.

[Rainrider]

I bought my German physical discs in Germany. I chose enGB (you can't choose enUS in europe) and I play on a German server. "installLocale" is still enUS for me for whatever reason. It is common to meet people playing in English. It is not uncommon to even see Russian. I can even take Italian and am still able to login to my German server. I think automated responses like those about boss encounter progress are better delivered in the server language as I can expect that the large majority of players on a German server can understand German. I can't expect them to know Italian. That would be my reason to look for the exact server locale and not just the region.

[jaliborc]

Well, the server language is really just a human protocol. See for instance Aggra EU, it's even in the english category but it's a portuguese server.
Anyway, given the region you can have a table mapping every realm to it's language. You only need to check the region because names in EU and US servers are shared.