Re: Wine and locales

[Shachar Shemesh]

Filip Navara wrote:
Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
We should not complicate things, especially since it's not clear at all
what APIs are affected by system/user locale differences.
System locale affects
System locale affects all *A functions. I.e. - it affects all ANSI 
functions. Aside from this affect:

- String comparsions
 (IntlStrEqWorker[AW], lstrcmp[AW], lstrcmpi[AW])
 Uses system locale after trying thread locale (which is
 derived from user locale on thread creation).
Uses User locale. Not system locale. It determines the collation (sort 
order). Obviously, it affects the A functions (lstrcmpA, etc.), but no 
more nor less than it does CreateWindowA, FormatHardDiskA, or 
AnyOtherFunctionA.

- Resource loading
 (FindResource & friends)
 Uses system locale after trying Default UI Language (see
 GetSystemDefaultUILanguage and GetUserDefaultUILanguage
 or NtQueryDefaultLanguage) and user locale.
Actually, here I don't think system locale affects at all. I'll be able 
to tell with more certainty later, though.

- Input locale identifier
 The thread default input language for system applications
 (that are started before user logins) is derived from the
 system locale setting. This probably isn't relevant for
 Wine.
And if you ask, no, I will not write a testcase, because it's
sometimes hard for me to even understand the problems caused
by different locales.
Regards,
Filip
         Shachar
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