ID Number: Q80947
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WINDOWS
Summary:
Windows 3.0 supports a number of national languages, character sets,
and code pages. Windows 3.0 does not, however, contain a function to
provide information about what language, character set, or code page
is installed. An application developed for the Windows environment can
read the contents of the WIN.INI and SYSTEM.INI files to determine
what support is installed. This article details how to obtain this
information.
More Information:
Current language information is available in the SYSTEM.INI file. In
the [keyboard] section, if the oemansi.bin= line has an entry in the
form "xlatXXX.bin," XXX is the number of the installed code page. The
Latin 2 character set corresponds to code page 852.
The installed national language support is also available in the
SYSTEM.INI file. In the [boot] section, if the language.dll= line has
an entry in the form "langXXX.dll," XXX is the three-letter
abbreviation for the name of the country.
The three-letter abbreviations are listed in the [language] and
[codepages] section of the SETUP.INF file. The Windows Setup program
copies SETUP.INF into the Windows system directory (by default,
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM).
Note: Windows 3.0 does not update the sLanguage field in the [intl]
section of the WIN.INI file when support for the Eastern European
(Latin 2) character set is installed.
For additional information, see "Adapt Your Program for Worldwide Use
with Windows Internationalization Support" starting on page 29 of the
Nov-Dec 1991 issue (volume 6, number 6) of the "Microsoft Systems
Journal."
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