# cPanel API 2 Modules - Locale

Warning:
The cPanel API 2 system is deprecated. We **strongly** recommend that you use [UAPI](https://api.docs.cpanel.net/cpanel/introduction) instead of cPanel API 2.

## Introduction

The `Locale` module accesses cPanel's language system.

## Available functions

* [cPanel API 2 Functions - `Locale::get_encoding`](/cpanel-api-2/cpanel-api-2-modules-locale/cpanel-api-2-functions-locale-get_encoding) — This function retrieves a user's character set encoding.
* [cPanel API 2 Functions - `Locale::get_html_dir_attr`](/cpanel-api-2/cpanel-api-2-modules-locale/cpanel-api-2-functions-locale-get_html_dir_attr) — This function retrieves a locale's text directionality.
* [cPanel API 2 Functions - `Locale::get_locale_name`](/cpanel-api-2/cpanel-api-2-modules-locale/cpanel-api-2-functions-locale-get_locale_name) — This function displays a locale's name in the user's language.
* [cPanel API 2 Functions - `Locale::get_user_locale`](/cpanel-api-2/cpanel-api-2-modules-locale/cpanel-api-2-functions-locale-get_user_locale) — This function retrieves a user's locale ID tag.
* [cPanel API 2 Functions - `Locale::get_user_locale_name`](/cpanel-api-2/cpanel-api-2-modules-locale/cpanel-api-2-functions-locale-get_user_locale_name) — This function retrieves a user's locale's name in that locale's language.
* [cPanel API 2 Functions - `Locale::numf`](/cpanel-api-2/cpanel-api-2-modules-locale/cpanel-api-2-functions-locale-numf) — This function retrieves a locale's number formatting method.