wp-includes/l10n.php:952Loads default translated strings based on locale.
$localestringoptionalnullboolfunction load_default_textdomain( $locale = null ) { if ( null === $locale ) { $locale = determine_locale(); } // Unload previously loaded strings so we can switch translations. unload_textdomain( 'default', true ); $return = load_textdomain( 'default', WP_LANG_DIR . "/$locale.mo", $locale ); if ( ( is_multisite() || ( defined( 'WP_INSTALLING_NETWORK' ) && WP_INSTALLING_NETWORK ) ) && ! file_exists( WP_LANG_DIR . "/admin-$locale.mo" ) ) { load_textdomain( 'default', WP_LANG_DIR . "/ms-$locale.mo", $locale ); return $return; } if ( is_admin() || wp_installing() || ( defined( 'WP_REPAIRING' ) && WP_REPAIRING ) || doing_action( 'wp_maybe_auto_update' ) ) { load_textdomain( 'default', WP_LANG_DIR . "/admin-$locale.mo", $locale ); } if ( is_network_admin() || ( defined( 'WP_INSTALLING_NETWORK' ) && WP_INSTALLING_NETWORK ) ) { load_textdomain( 'default', WP_LANG_DIR . "/admin-network-$locale.mo", $locale ); } return $return;}Introduced in 1.5.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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