Name
GetLanguageInfo -- get information about language (V7.1)
Synopsis
t = GetLanguageInfo(lang)
Function
This function can be used to retrieve additional information about a language. You have to pass one of Hollywood's language constants in the lang argument. See GetSystemLanguage for a list of languages.

GetLanguageInfo() will then return a table with the following fields initialized:

Code:
Two letter language code as defined by ISO 639.

Name:
The language's ISO name.

Inputs
lang
one of the language constants defined by Hollywood (see above)
Results
t
table containing language information
Example
t = GetLanguageInfo(GetSystemLanguage())
Print(t.Code, t.Name)
On a German system, this will print "DE" and "german".

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