in reply to Win32 Language

You can also get the country, locale and other internationalisation (Sorry. I forgot the abbreviation:) from the registry using Tie::Registry 

HKCU/Control Panel/International/Locale
HKCU/Control Panel/International/SCountry

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The date format, currancy symbol etc. are also there.

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