Locale
Identifiers
This appendix
contains detailed information about national language support in Microsoft Windows . The information
presented here pertains to locale identifiers, LCTYPE constants, country
codes, and language identifiers.
A locale
identifier (LCID) is a DWORD value containing the language identifier in
the lower word and a reserved value in the upper word. The identifier supplied
in an LCID is a standard international numeric abbreviation. This LCID has the
components necessary to uniquely identify one of the installed system-defined
locales.
Applications
can use the MAKELCID
macro to create LCID values.
There are two
predefined LCID values: LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT is the system default locale, and
LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT is the current user s locale.