Read and respond to this message at: https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4647328 By: tml1024
There are two issues here that you need to understand: Firstly the setlocale() function in the Microsoft C library does not accept locale strings in the same syntax as its counterparts on Linux (and (most?) POSIX systems in general). It does not use the ISO639 and ISO3166 language and country codes. Instead it uses a syntax like "Swedish_Finland.1252", i.e. the name of the language in English, followed by an underscore and the name of the country in English (and optionally followed by a period and the code page). In your case setlocale(LC_ALL, "Japanese_Japan") should do the trick. The C library's locale affects things like whether to use decimal comma or point, names of weekdays as produced by strftime() etc. The second issue is that even if you manage to set the C library's locale with setlocale(), that does not affect the locale of the thread as known to the Windows kernel. To do that you need to call SetThreadLocale(). And of course, this again uses a different form of locale identifier, a LCID. (This affects the current thread only, so if you call this you better do it early in the lifetime of the process if you intend to start more threads.) The gettext library uses the GetThreadLocale() call to find out what language to use. Note that the gettext library first looks for LC_ALL and LANG environment variables, so to affect just gettext, it is enough to set one of these environment variables. Not that unlike on POSIX systems, these environment variables have no effect on the C library, though. The thread locale affects locale-specific things in the Win32 API, but not the C library. Check out this test program: http://tml.pp.fi/localetest.c which should show all the above aspects in great detail. --tml ______________________________________________________________________ You are receiving this email because you elected to monitor this forum. To stop monitoring this forum, login to SourceForge.net and visit: https://sourceforge.net/forum/unmonitor.php?forum_id=74807 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ GnuWin32-Users mailing list GnuWin32-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnuwin32-users
