Re: Default Windows locale for localename.c

[lrn1986]

On 13.03.2018 19:11, LRN wrote:
> MSDN [1] explains the multiple language
> situation in Vista+ (which is what we should aim to use; XP can just keep using
> GetThreadLocale() for all i care; that said, GetUserDefaultUILanguage() is
> claimed to be 2000+, so we could use that) and that
> GetUserDefaultUILanguage()/GetUserPreferredUILanguages() return the UI
> language(s) for the user.
>
> MSDN [1] also lists per-process and per-thread language functions, but these
> either default to empty return string or explicitly fall back to more generic
> User/System/Install language.
>
> [1] 
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd374098(v=vs.85).aspx

Tested it out.

For English UI and Russian format setting:

GetUserDefaultUILanguage() returns:
0x409 (primary ID 0x9 sub ID 0x1 (meaning en_US)).

GetUserPreferredUILanguages() returns:
"0409" for language ID and "en-US" for language name.
(1 language, in a 00-terminated string).


For Russian UI and English format setting:

GetUserDefaultUILanguage() returns:
0x419 (primary ID 0x19 sub ID 0x1 (meaning ru_RU)).

GetUserPreferredUILanguages() returns:
"0419" for language ID and "ru-RU" for language name.
"0409" for language ID and "en-US" for language name.
(2 languages, in a 0-delimited, 00-terminated string).

Since there's no POSIX api for returning a list of locales, we'd be OK with 
just GetUserDefaultUILanguage() (although MSDN recommends 
GetUserPreferredUILanguages(), since it returns strings and thus can represent 
custom locales; though we might need new code for parsing its output).

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