finding the current language of the system

[tkop]

hi,

how can I find the current language of the operating system. I don't want the default.

for example, if I have English and say some other language installed in my system.

I am using MFC.

please notice that word uses a default - this is not what I want.

In addition, I heard from a freind that I might be able to overcome this problem using unicode. if anyone has an explanation or a link please inform me.

thanks

 

[LazyMe]

>>In addition, I heard from a freind that I might be able to overcome this problem using unicode.

What problem are you talking about?


According to MSDN GetUserDefaultUILanguage retrieves the current user language.

Greetings,
Rick

 

[tkop]

thank you for the quick response, I'll check that function out (can't believe it evaded me).
The problem of finding the current language.

to explain what I need to do - I want to right an application that prints out the letters in the order which they appear on the keyboard.

for example:
qwertyuiop[]
asdfghjkl;'
zxcvbnm,./

maybe with unicode I can ignore the current OS language, and instead simply output the appropiate letters.

note that when the language of the system changes - I need to change the output accordingly

 

[LazyMe]

I think you're a little bit off track about the use of UNICODE.

UNICODE is not a multilingual language (that was probably poor English); UNICODE is just a way to store characters. There are several different versions of UNICODE, but the one supported by the VC compiler is the two bytes version. This means that one character occupies 2 bytes (instead of 1). With this, it's true that you can write Japaneese and such languages (since these are two byte characters), but there's still a codepage that's used by Windows to convert the bytes to actual characters.

Furthermore: The OS language will not do with what you want; it can be English with a french keyboard, for example. I think you'll do better if you search the MSDN for GetKeyboardLayout and the related functions.

Greetings,
Rick