localize: Use WLAN regdomain to guesstimate country, language, and keyboard

[probonopd]

Can we use this to get the country? How does this work? Is it using info from the wireless router? How reliable is it?

% ifconfig | grep regdomain | xargs | cut -d " " -f 4
DE

[louies0623]

This can be inconvenient for non-native speakers, such as business trip and immigrants, or there are many languages ​​in the local area, for example, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, etc. Is it using info from the wireless router? it's not reliable.

[louies0623]

Switzerland

Israel

Singapore

Malaysia

[louies0623]

But you can use this method to correspond to the time zone of the computer.