Wine and locales

Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org
Thu Jul 29 10:32:51 CDT 2004


"Dmitry Timoshkov" <dmitry at baikal.ru> writes:

> I prefer not introduce potentially confusing things. I'm still
> waiting for the test cases and explanations what exactly APIs are
> affected by system/user locale in Windows and what users should
> expect when they have different system and user locale.

The system locale defines the current codepages, so it affects
MultiByteToWideChar and similar APIs. The user locale affects resource
loading. It's likely that there are places in Wine that don't handle
the distinction properly, but I don't think it's reasonable to demand
tests for every single API before we can consider the patch.
Particularly since without the patch there is no way to make user and
system locales different, so there is no way to test anything at all.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org



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