diff -r e9d463cb5b49 android-project/src/org/libsdl/app/SDLActivity.java
--- a/android-project/src/org/libsdl/app/SDLActivity.java	Tue Sep 10 18:25:13 2013 -0700
+++ b/android-project/src/org/libsdl/app/SDLActivity.java	Thu Oct 03 20:31:22 2013 +0200
@@ -262,6 +262,10 @@
         return mSingleton;
     }
 
+    public static String getLocale() {
+        return getContext().getResources().getConfiguration().locale.toString();
+    }
+
     static class ShowTextInputTask implements Runnable {
         /*
          * This is used to regulate the pan&scan method to have some offset from
diff -r e9d463cb5b49 include/SDL_system.h
--- a/include/SDL_system.h	Tue Sep 10 18:25:13 2013 -0700
+++ b/include/SDL_system.h	Thu Oct 03 20:31:22 2013 +0200
@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@
  */
 extern DECLSPEC const char * SDLCALL SDL_AndroidGetExternalStoragePath();
 
+
+/* Get the user's locale, as defined in the Activity.
+ */
+extern DECLSPEC const char * SDLCALL SDL_AndroidGetLocale();
+
 #endif /* __ANDROID__ */
 
 
diff -r e9d463cb5b49 src/core/android/SDL_android.c
--- a/src/core/android/SDL_android.c	Tue Sep 10 18:25:13 2013 -0700
+++ b/src/core/android/SDL_android.c	Thu Oct 03 20:31:22 2013 +0200
@@ -1390,6 +1390,40 @@
     return s_AndroidExternalFilesPath;
 }
 
+const char * SDL_AndroidGetLocale()
+{
+    static char *s_AndroidLocale = NULL;
+
+    struct LocalReferenceHolder refs = LocalReferenceHolder_Setup(__FUNCTION__);
+    jmethodID mid;
+    jstring localeString;
+    const char *locale;
+
+    JNIEnv *env = Android_JNI_GetEnv();
+    if (!LocalReferenceHolder_Init(&refs, env)) {
+        LocalReferenceHolder_Cleanup(&refs);
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    /* localeString = SDLActivity.getLocale(); */
+    mid = (*env)->GetStaticMethodID(env, mActivityClass,
+            "getLocale","()Ljava/lang/String;");
+    localeString =
+        (jstring)(*env)->CallStaticObjectMethod(env, mActivityClass, mid);
+    locale = (*env)->GetStringUTFChars(env, localeString, NULL);
+    
+    if ( s_AndroidLocale != NULL ) {
+        SDL_free(s_AndroidLocale);
+    }
+
+    s_AndroidLocale = SDL_strdup(locale);
+    (*env)->ReleaseStringUTFChars(env, localeString, locale);
+
+    LocalReferenceHolder_Cleanup(&refs);
+
+    return s_AndroidLocale;
+}
+
 #endif /* __ANDROID__ */
 
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