ConvertDefaultLocale

Functional Difference from WIN95

N/A

Functional Difference from SBCS Open32

New

Implementation

This API converts a special default locale value to an actual Locale ID, and returns it. Open32 generates the required values with referring to the value which the Open32 constructor useNLS initializes when the process begins.

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 Value as Locale parameter      This function returns

 LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT          System default Locale ID(*1)

 LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT            User default Locale ID(*2)

 zero                           language-neutral default
                                locale(*3)

 Any sublanguage neutral locale sublanguage neutral default
 (*4)                           locale(*5)
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Note:

See the description of 'GetSystemDefaultLCID' about how the system default Locale ID is generated.
See the description of 'GetUserDefaultLCID' about how the user default Locale ID is generated,
Language-neutral default locale is the thread locale. See the description of 'GetThreadLocale' about the thread locale.
In Open32, the validity of the sublanguage neutral locale is same in WIN95. That is, the sort ID should be default(=zero), and the sublanguage should be neutral(=zero), and language should be valid. This rule is gotten from the test on WIN95J. Otherwise, it is not accepted as the sublanguage neutral locale.
It consists of the specified primary language, the default sublanguage and the default sort ID.

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