From bfc2cec7d43eb8eaa46dd3f91084932381257059 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kj_sh604
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:19:35 -0400
Subject: refactor: excalidraw-app/

---
 excalidraw-app/app-language/language-detector.ts | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 excalidraw-app/app-language/language-detector.ts

(limited to 'excalidraw-app/app-language/language-detector.ts')

diff --git a/excalidraw-app/app-language/language-detector.ts b/excalidraw-app/app-language/language-detector.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..52da490
--- /dev/null
+++ b/excalidraw-app/app-language/language-detector.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import LanguageDetector from "i18next-browser-languagedetector";
+import { defaultLang, languages } from "@excalidraw/excalidraw";
+
+export const languageDetector = new LanguageDetector();
+
+languageDetector.init({
+  languageUtils: {},
+});
+
+export const getPreferredLanguage = () => {
+  const detectedLanguages = languageDetector.detect();
+
+  const detectedLanguage = Array.isArray(detectedLanguages)
+    ? detectedLanguages[0]
+    : detectedLanguages;
+
+  const initialLanguage =
+    (detectedLanguage
+      ? // region code may not be defined if user uses generic preferred language
+        // (e.g. chinese vs instead of chinese-simplified)
+        languages.find((lang) => lang.code.startsWith(detectedLanguage))?.code
+      : null) || defaultLang.code;
+
+  return initialLanguage;
+};
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