Microsoft KB Archive/100488

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INFO: System Versus User Locale Identifiers

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Q100488

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK)

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SUMMARY
In Windows NT version 3.1, the following pairs of application programming interfaces (APIs) have the same functionality:

  GetSystemDefaultLCID   and GetUserDefaultLCID GetSystemDefaultLangID and GetUserDefaultLangID The user LangID and LCID are always set to the system value. In future versions of Windows NT, it will be possible to set the LangID and the LCID on a per-user basis.

Note that it is possible to set the LCID on a per-thread basis [that is, SetThreadLocale] in Windows NT 3.1.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbOSWinNT kbSysSettings kbOSWin95 kbOSWin98 kbIntlDev

Issue type : kbinfo

Technology : kbWin32SDKSearch kbAudDeveloper kbSDKSearch kbWin32sSearch