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From: Mihai N. on 26 Jan 2010 02:10

> I can fetch all information via the
> Win32 API, except for the aforementioned four strings which constitute the
> minimal information given in the LC_MESSAGES category.

There is no supported way to get that info, you can stop looking.


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From: Pavel A. on 25 Jan 2010 15:30
Hmm, if this is is for posix compatibility, maybe somebody from MS Services
for Unix
could tell whether they implemented it?

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"Corinna Vinschen" <corinna(a)community.nospam> wrote in message
news:hjkf9c$79v$1(a)perth.hirmke.de...
> Liviu wrote:
>> "Pavel A." <pavel_a(a)12fastmail34.fm> wrote...
>>> "Liviu" <lab2k1(a)gmail.c0m> wrote
>>>>
>>>> Maybe MessageBoxEx with MB_YESNO, then read the button texts
>>>> within a hook (and drop the "&"s).
>>>
>>> Yep. This is exactly how I found these strings in user32.dll :)
>>
>> You must have done some additional debugging to trace the strings
>> back to the source ;-) Anyway, quoting from your other post...
>>
>>>>> Look in string table resources of user32.dll.
>>>>> "&Yes" is id=805, "&No" is id=806 (on XP SP3, x86)
>>> [...]
>>> The plain one-language system has only one variant of these
>>> string resources
>>
>> ...confirmed here. FWIW on a brute force search in my us-en XP install
>> I found just one system file with both yes/no and (fr) oui/non strings.
>> That was msi.dll (part of windows installer), where "&Yes" is string #25
>> and "&No" #26. Both are localized in 36 other languages, even though no
>> MUIs are installed (as well as some other common strings like OK,
>> cancel, retry, ignore etc). To be very clear, I am not in any way
>> recommending that one actually used those strings, relied on them
>> even being there, or on the IDs staying the same between versions.
>
> That doesn't exactly look like the way to go. I'm looking for system
> info in the style of GetLocaleInfo(Ex), which can be asked for on the
> fly, independently of the system. The information given there is
> usually available for all supported locales, whether or not the
> languages are installed as GUI languages. Stuff like calling MessageBoxEx
> is also not quite what I had in mind, given that I need the info in a
> DLL which is usually running in CLI mode. Depending on the resource
> number of a DLL which could change from system to system sounds a bit...
> fragile.
>
> Last but not least I actually need four strings, two with the localized
> default string for "Yes" and "No", and two with regular expressions
> containing the localized pattern to recognize user input meaning "Yes"
> and "No". For the English language for instance: "^[yY]" and "^[nN]".
>
> In case you're wondering what this is about, I'm searching the information
> for the POSIX localization categories LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGES,
> LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, and LC_TIME. I can fetch all information via the
> Win32 API, except for the aforementioned four strings which constitute the
> minimal information given in the LC_MESSAGES category.
>
> Well, looks like I have to create a file-based solution with the
> information fetched from some other source.
>
>
> Corinna
>
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From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard on 26 Jan 2010 07:37
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
http-equiv="Content-Type">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<blockquote cite="mid:hjkf9c$79v$1(a)perth.hirmke.de" type="cite">
<p>Well, looks like I have to create a file-based solution with the
information fetched from some other source.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>If you want not to reinvent some of that particular wheel, note that
<a href="http://eduardocasino.es./freedos/country">the <code>COUNTRY.SYS</code>
in FreeDOS</a> contains some of the data that you'll be wanting, as a
"YESNO" table extension to the standard format.</p>
</body>
</html>
From: Corinna Vinschen on 26 Jan 2010 13:14
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> [-- text/html, encoding 7bit, charset: ISO-8859-1, 17 lines --]
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
><html>
><head>
> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
> http-equiv="Content-Type">
></head>
><body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
><blockquote cite="mid:hjkf9c$79v$1(a)perth.hirmke.de" type="cite">
> <p>Well, looks like I have to create a file-based solution with the
>information fetched from some other source.</p>
></blockquote>
><p>If you want not to reinvent some of that particular wheel, note that
><a href="http://eduardocasino.es./freedos/country">the <code>COUNTRY.SYS</code>
>in FreeDOS</a> contains some of the data that you'll be wanting, as a
>"YESNO" table extension to the standard format.</p>
></body>
></html>

Nice idea. I tend to fetch the locale data from GLibc and create a file
from that using some shell or perl script.


Corinna

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From: Corinna Vinschen on 26 Jan 2010 13:17
Pavel A. wrote:
> Hmm, if this is is for posix compatibility, maybe somebody from MS Services
> for Unix
> could tell whether they implemented it?

There's not a lot of locale-specific data available in SFU. It's using
a file-based approach as well, with the files stored in /usr/share/locale,
afaics. However, since I can access the Win32 locale data, I just need
the tiny bit of LC_MESSAGES info anyway. As I noted in another posting,
I guess I'll look into the glibc locale data to create locale message
files.


Corinna

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