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Abhishek
Abhishek

Reputation: 2945

Get a list of installed languages in Windows 10

I need to display a list of installed languages in a ComboBox in a WPF application. For example, I have English (United States) and English (India) installed. I want to show these both in my ComboBox

I am using the CultureInfo class for this. Below is a snippet of what I am trying. I am able to get all the cultures. But I need only those cultures which are installed through system settings.

var cultureInfos = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.NeutralCultures);
foreach (var culture in cultureInfos)
{
    Console.WriteLine(culture.Name);
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1325

Answers (1)

dymanoid
dymanoid

Reputation: 15217

You can use the native function GetKeyboardLayoutList to get a list of installed input languages.

Here is a sample:

IEnumerable<CultureInfo> GetInstalledInputLanguages()
{
    // first determine the number of installed languages
    uint size = GetKeyboardLayoutList(0, null);
    IntPtr[] ids = new IntPtr[size];

    // then get the handles list of those languages
    GetKeyboardLayoutList(ids.Length, ids);

    foreach (int id in ids) // note the explicit cast IntPtr -> int
    {
        yield return new CultureInfo(id & 0xFFFF);
    }
}

[DllImport("user32.dll")]
static extern uint GetKeyboardLayoutList(int nBuff, [Out] IntPtr [] lpList);

Upvotes: 5

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