use strict; use warnings; use Win32::API; Win32::API->Import('kernel32.dll', 'long GetSystemDefaultLangID()') or die "Can't import GetSystemDefaultLangID: $^E\n"; my $langid = GetSystemDefaultLangID() & 0xFFFF # Mask out the garbage in high-order bytes or die "ERROR: LANGID Returned \n"; print "Returned '$langid'\n"; printf "Lang ID: 0x%04X\n", $langid; # Print output---- # Returned '1033' # Lang ID: 0x0409