Get a language's ISO identifier from its name

Question

I know I can get the device's current Locale easily but in my case, the user chooses the language from a UIPickerView. Each language is a string in a array typed exactly the same way the phone has it in the settings for setting the device language.

Is it possible to get the language abbreviation from a string like @"English" or @"Arabic"?

Thanks!

Answer 1

NSLocale's +canonicalLocaleIdentifierFromString: does this translation.