Utilities - Locale - getLocale() method - returns locale for given category

src/Utilities/Locale.php

@@ -61,6 +61,27 @@ class Locale
         return setlocale($category, $localeLongForm);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Returns locale for given category
+     *
+     * @param int $category Named constant specifying the category of the functions affected by the locale setting.
+     *                      It's the same constant as required by setlocale() function.
+     * @return string
+     *
+     * Available categories (values of $category argument):
+     * - LC_ALL for all of the below
+     * - LC_COLLATE for string comparison, see strcoll()
+     * - LC_CTYPE for character classification and conversion, for example strtoupper()
+     * - LC_MONETARY for localeconv()
+     * - LC_NUMERIC for decimal separator (See also localeconv())
+     * - LC_TIME for date and time formatting with strftime()
+     * - LC_MESSAGES for system responses (available if PHP was compiled with libintl)
+     */
+    public static function getLocale($category)
+    {
+        return setlocale($category, '0');
+    }
+
     /**
      * Returns long form of the locale
      *