Re: [Freekode-public] Event system

[Pedro A. <pa...@dc...>]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:39:18 +0100
"Diogo Teixeira" <fo...@gm...> wrote:

> I guess I should have been more specific.
> 
> Obviously, the first functions I tested were the ones provided by C
> locale. The problem is... you can set those strings to whatever you
> want using setlocale()
> because no convention is mentioned except that the format _should_ be
> something
> like: language[_territory][.codeset]
> 
> For example, your code on my platform results in:
> LC_ALL=Portuguese_Portugal.1252
> LC_CTYPE=Portuguese_Portugal.1252
> 
> Which does not comply with the ISO defined by the spec. I guess it
> makes sense to
> use such a convention, for the sake of kdGetLocale() being anywhere
> near useful.

I can now feel your pain.

After a bit of search on MSDN I found out that setlocale() returns
"human readable" strings for the locale and if you want to get ISO
codes you have to use GetSystemDefaultLocaleName(),
GetUSerDefaultLocaleName() or GetThreadLocale() from <winnls.h>
(included by <windows.h>).

In this case, other than building a translation table for different
meanings of the setlocale() return value for each platform, we're
probably better off providing platform-specific implementations.  

P.