Implement `OS::get_locale_language()` helper method

This method extracts the 2 or 3-letter language code from `OS::get_locale()`,
making it easier for users to identify the "main" language code for users
that might have different OS locales due to different OS or region, but
should be matched to the same translation (e.g. "generic" Spanish).

Fixes #40703.

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/doc/classes/OS.xml b/doc/classes/OS.xml
index 757730f6c8..305258c8c5 100644
--- a/doc/classes/OS.xml
+++ b/doc/classes/OS.xml
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
 		<method name="get_locale" qualifiers="const">
 			<return type="String" />
 			<description>
-				Returns the host OS locale as a string of the form [code]language_Script_COUNTRY_VARIANT@extra[/code].
+				Returns the host OS locale as a string of the form [code]language_Script_COUNTRY_VARIANT@extra[/code]. If you want only the language code and not the fully specified locale from the OS, you can use [method get_locale_language].
 				[code]language[/code] - 2 or 3-letter [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes]language code[/url], in lower case.
 				[code]Script[/code] - optional, 4-letter [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15924]script code[/url], in title case.
 				[code]COUNTRY[/code] - optional, 2 or 3-letter [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1]country code[/url], in upper case.
@@ -223,6 +223,13 @@
 				[code]extra[/code] - optional, semicolon separated list of additional key words. Currency, calendar, sort order and numbering system information.
 			</description>
 		</method>
+		<method name="get_locale_language" qualifiers="const">
+			<return type="String" />
+			<description>
+				Returns the host OS locale's 2 or 3-letter [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes]language code[/url] as a string which should be consistent on all platforms. This is equivalent to extracting the [code]language[/code] part of the [method get_locale] string.
+				This can be used to narrow down fully specified locale strings to only the "common" language code, when you don't need the additional information about country code or variants. For example, for a French Canadian user with [code]fr_CA[/code] locale, this would return [code]fr[/code].
+			</description>
+		</method>
 		<method name="get_model_name" qualifiers="const">
 			<return type="String" />
 			<description>
diff --git a/doc/classes/TranslationServer.xml b/doc/classes/TranslationServer.xml
index 029848be33..a002166664 100644
--- a/doc/classes/TranslationServer.xml
+++ b/doc/classes/TranslationServer.xml
@@ -27,13 +27,14 @@
 		<method name="get_loaded_locales" qualifiers="const">
 			<return type="Array" />
 			<description>
-				Returns an Array of all loaded locales of the game.
+				Returns an array of all loaded locales of the project.
 			</description>
 		</method>
 		<method name="get_locale" qualifiers="const">
 			<return type="String" />
 			<description>
-				Returns the current locale of the game.
+				Returns the current locale of the project.
+				See also [method OS.get_locale] and [method OS.get_locale_language] to query the locale of the user system.
 			</description>
 		</method>
 		<method name="get_locale_name" qualifiers="const">
@@ -75,7 +76,8 @@
 			<return type="void" />
 			<argument index="0" name="locale" type="String" />
 			<description>
-				Sets the locale of the game.
+				Sets the locale of the project. The [code]locale[/code] string will be standardized to match known locales (e.g. [code]en-US[/code] would be matched to [code]en_US[/code]).
+				If translations have been loaded beforehand for the new locale, they will be applied.
 			</description>
 		</method>
 		<method name="translate" qualifiers="const">