Format for LANGUAGE Statement in .RES FilesLast reviewed: November 2, 1995Article ID: Q89822 |
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Win32 SDK, versions 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, and 4.0
SUMMARYThe syntax for the LANGUAGE statement in the resource script file is given as follows on page 289 of the Win32 SDK "Tools User's Guide" manual:
LANGUAGE major, minor major Language identifier. Must be one of the constants from WINNLS.H minor Sublanguage identifier. Must be one of the constants from WINNLS.HFor example, suppose that you want to set the language for the resources in a file to French. For the major parameter, you would choose the following constant from the list of language identifiers
#define LANG_FRENCH 0x0cand you would have the choice of any of the sublanguages that begin with SUBLANG_FRENCH in the list of sublanguage identifiers. They are:
#define SUBLANG_FRENCH 0x01 #define SUBLANG_FRENCH_BELGIAN 0x02 #define SUBLANG_FRENCH_CANADIAN 0x03 #define SUBLANG_FRENCH_SWISS 0x04RC.EXE does not directly place these constants in the .RES file. It uses the macro MAKELANGID to turn the parameters into a WORD that corresponds to a language ID. NOTE: The following three combinations have special meaning:
Primary language ID Sublanguage ID Meaning LANG_NEUTRAL SUBLANG_NEUTRAL Language neutral LANG_NEUTRAL SUBLANG_DEFAULT User default language LANG_NEUTRAL SUBLANG_SYS_DEFAULT System default language MORE INFORMATIONThe following information is taken from the WINNLS.H file.
A language ID is a 16-bit value that is the combination of a primary language ID and a secondary language ID. The bits are allocated as follows: +-----------------------+-------------------------+ | Sublanguage ID | Primary Language ID | +-----------------------+-------------------------+ 15 10 9 0 bit Language ID creation/extraction macros: MAKELANGID - Construct language ID from primary language ID and sublanguage ID. PRIMARYLANGID - Extract primary language ID from a language ID. SUBLANGID - Extract sublanguage ID from a language ID.The macros are defined as follows
#define MAKELANGID(p, s) ((((USHORT)(s)) << 10) | (USHORT)(p)) #define PRIMARYLANGID(lgid) ((USHORT)(lgid) & 0x3ff) #define SUBLANGID(lgid) ((USHORT)(lgid) >> 10) |
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