Language version of OS

[Ken Kast]

This is a question that may not even make sense. I built an application to
run on Windows. I needed the language id of the OS (the ubiquitous 1033 for
us using the US English version). (This is different than the Locale. One
can change the locale; the version of the OS you're stuck with.) There's an
API call to return a bit coded short integer with the primary and secondary
id's, so I was able to internationalize OK.

Now the questions I have are:
1. Do other languages have multinational versions?
2. Does Java have a class for finding the language id?


Thanks.

Ken