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eleven
eleven

Reputation: 6847

Locale format for various operating systems

char *currentLocale = setlocale(LC_ALL,"");

In windows setlocale returns "English_United States", but in linux it retruns "en_US". Is there a universal method to recognize english locale? Or I have to go over all available locales values? ("English_United States" || "en_US" || etc)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 205

Answers (2)

umlcat
umlcat

Reputation: 4143

You may want to check:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locale

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639

In theory, Windows, Linux, MAc, and other O.S. may have function libraries that support the "language underscore country" format, even if they have their internal standard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

Upvotes: 1

Wander Nauta
Wander Nauta

Reputation: 19615

It seems Windows is the only outlier in this case - most operating systems use the (saner) "en_US" format. You could use something like #ifdef to supply custom code to Windows compilers:

#ifdef __unix__
setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US");
#elif defined _WIN32
setlocale(LC_ALL, "English");
#else
#error "Can't figure out how to set locale to English. Stop.";
#endif

It isn't very pretty, but it should work.

Upvotes: 0

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