Re: Convert LCID to ANSI locale string?

From:

"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:57:42 -0500

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alex <alex.shulgin@gmail.com> wrote:

On Feb 1, 10:58 pm, "Igor Tandetnik" <itandet...@mvps.org> wrote:

In my experience, CRT startup code sets up the locale to match the OS
user locale ( GetUserDefaultLCID ). It even goes as far as surfacing
manual overrides to number formats and such via localeconv -
something that can't be done by the program itself using public API
only.

Are you saying this has not automatically happened in your
application?

Yes, in my experience (as well as in my expectations) it does not:

You are right. I figured it out. It's not CRT that synchronizes locales,
it's a library I'm using. And it's doing it with a simple call:

setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

The empty string for locale name is interpreted as "derive CRT locale
from GetUserDefaultLCID". It's even mentioned in setlocale docs: "If
locale points to an empty string, the locale is the
implementation-defined native environment."
--
With best wishes,
Igor Tandetnik

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