It needs to work correctly on Windows XP. Most of the loc functions you'd
want to use don't. <sigh/>
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Neil Sleightholm <n...@x2systems.com>wrote:
> Does anyone remember whether there was a conscious decision to use
> LANGID based folders for localisation of burn rather than culture name
> based folders (e.g. fr-FR)?****
>
> ** **
>
> (Side note: I am using LANGID rather than LCID here as I believe LCID is
> more than just the language information.)****
>
> ** **
>
> The issue I have with the current implementation is that you need to
> supply a translation for every sub language, when using culture names in
> .NET you can create a French folder (fr) and both France (fr-FR) and
> Belgium (fr-BE) sub languages can work with it.****
>
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>
> There are a couple of alternatives to resolving this:****
>
> **1. **Enhance the LocProbeForFile() code to search for the primary
> language version of the current locale if it doesn’t find a specific sub
> language folder. This would involve taking the current LANGID masking it
> with 0x3FF and then calling MAKELANGID(masked_langid, SUBLANG_DEFAULT)
> and probing that folder.****
>
> **2. **Enhance the LocProbeForFile() code to use culture names and
> the fall back to using LANGID. It would need to probe for lang-sublang
> first and then just lang.****
>
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>
> I would prefer to use option 2 as it seems to be more reliable as I have
> read that LANGID values have had to be adjusted to cope with the number of
> languages. The problem is, and this probably answers my original question,
> that there aren’t any C++ function to retrieve this information (well not
> that also work on Windows XP). So it looks like only option 1 is viable.**
> **
>
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>
> Does anyone have a view on this? ****
>
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>
> Regards****
>
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>
> Neil****
>
> ** **
>
> Neil Sleightholm
> X2 Systems Limited
> n...@x2systems.com****
>
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