def _get_user_locale():
    """
    | Gets the user locale to set the user interface language language.
    | The default is set to english if the user's system locale is not one of the translated languages.

    :return: string.
        The user locale.

    """
    if 'Windows' in platform.system():
        import ctypes
        windll = ctypes.windll.kernel32
        default_locale = windows_locale[windll.GetUserDefaultUILanguage()]
    else:
        default_locale = getdefaultlocale()
    if default_locale:
        if isinstance(default_locale, tuple):
            user_locale = [0][:2]
        else:
            user_locale = default_locale[:2]
    else:
        user_locale = 'en'
    return user_locale 

def check_svchost_owner(self, owner):
        ## Locale setting
        import ctypes
        import locale
        windll = ctypes.windll.kernel32
        locale = locale.windows_locale[ windll.GetUserDefaultUILanguage() ]
        if locale == 'fr_FR':
            return (owner.upper().startswith("SERVICE LOCAL") or
                owner.upper().startswith(u"SERVICE RÉSEAU") or
                re.match(r"SERVICE R.SEAU", owner) or
                owner == u"Système"  or
                owner.upper().startswith(u"AUTORITE NT\Système") or
                re.match(r"AUTORITE NT\\Syst.me", owner))
        elif locale == 'ru_RU':
            return (owner.upper().startswith("NET") or
                owner == u"система" or
                owner.upper().startswith("LO"))
        else:
            return ( owner.upper().startswith("NT ") or owner.upper().startswith("NET") or
                owner.upper().startswith("LO") or
                owner.upper().startswith("SYSTEM")) 

def GetClosestLanguage():
    """
    Returns the language file closest to system locale.
    """
    langDir = join(dirname(abspath(sys.executable)), "languages")
    if exists(langDir):
        uiLang = windows_locale[windll.kernel32.GetUserDefaultUILanguage()]

        langFiles = tuple(
            f[:-3] for f in os.listdir(langDir)
            if f.endswith(".py") and (
                f.startswith(uiLang) or f.startswith(uiLang[:3])
            )
        )
        if uiLang in langFiles:
            return uiLang
        if langFiles:
            return langFiles[0]

    return "en_US" 

def detect_language(lang=None, detect_fallback=True):
        """
        returns the language (if it's retrievable)
        """
        # We want to only use the 2 character version of this language
        # hence en_CA becomes en, en_US becomes en.
        if not isinstance(lang, six.string_types):
            if detect_fallback is False:
                # no detection enabled; we're done
                return None

            if hasattr(ctypes, 'windll'):
                windll = ctypes.windll.kernel32
                try:
                    lang = locale.windows_locale[
                        windll.GetUserDefaultUILanguage()]

                    # Our detected windows language
                    return lang[0:2].lower()

                except (TypeError, KeyError):
                    # Fallback to posix detection
                    pass

            try:
                # Detect language
                lang = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]

            except ValueError as e:
                # This occurs when an invalid locale was parsed from the
                # environment variable. While we still return None in this
                # case, we want to better notify the end user of this. Users
                # receiving this error should check their environment
                # variables.
                logger.warning(
                    'Language detection failure / {}'.format(str(e)))
                return None

            except TypeError:
                # None is returned if the default can't be determined
                # we're done in this case
                return None

        return None if not lang else lang[0:2].lower() 

def detect_language(lang=None, detect_fallback=True):
        """
        returns the language (if it's retrievable)
        """
        # We want to only use the 2 character version of this language
        # hence en_CA becomes en, en_US becomes en.
        if not isinstance(lang, six.string_types):
            if detect_fallback is False:
                # no detection enabled; we're done
                return None

            if hasattr(ctypes, 'windll'):
                windll = ctypes.windll.kernel32
                try:
                    lang = locale.windows_locale[
                        windll.GetUserDefaultUILanguage()]

                    # Our detected windows language
                    return lang[0:2].lower()

                except (TypeError, KeyError):
                    # Fallback to posix detection
                    pass

            try:
                # Detect language
                lang = locale.getdefaultlocale()[0]

            except ValueError as e:
                # This occurs when an invalid locale was parsed from the
                # environment variable. While we still return None in this
                # case, we want to better notify the end user of this. Users
                # receiving this error should check their environment
                # variables.
                logger.warning(
                    'Language detection failure / {}'.format(str(e)))
                return None

            except TypeError:
                # None is returned if the default can't be determined
                # we're done in this case
                return None

        return None if not lang else lang[0:2].lower()