From 25314cb5528c6999d1b0145c1a3dfed7000d53d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alberto Sottile <alby128@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:56:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] macOS app: get system language from QLocale

Fixes: #288
---
 syncplay/messages.py | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/syncplay/messages.py b/syncplay/messages.py
index f9fefac..a5e9b24 100755
--- a/syncplay/messages.py
+++ b/syncplay/messages.py
@@ -46,9 +46,15 @@ def getMissingStrings():
 
 
 def getInitialLanguage():
-    import locale
     try:
-        initialLanguage = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0].split("_")[0]
+        import sys
+        frozen = getattr(sys, 'frozen', '')
+        if frozen in 'macosx_app':
+            from PySide2.QtCore import QLocale
+            initialLanguage = QLocale.system().uiLanguages()[0].split('-')[0]
+        else:
+            import locale
+            initialLanguage = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0].split("_")[0]
         if initialLanguage not in messages:
             initialLanguage = constants.FALLBACK_INITIAL_LANGUAGE
     except: