What function can be invoked to check what Windows localized version is running?

We use GetVersionEx to get Windows version.

There are 24 localized versions of Windows 2000, Windows XP Home and Professional editions: English, German, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, French, Italian, Swedish, Dutch, Brazilian, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Portuguese, Greek, Turkish.

What function or APi can be invoked to check what Windows localized version is running?

Thanks,

GetLocaleInfoEx (or GetLocaleInfo) might work...but not sure since I never tried it:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...caleInfoEx.asp

or something more modern might be to use WMI with the Win32_OperatingSystem class.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tingsystem.asp

Here's some example code that gives those OS name, but you can easily change it to print out the OSLanguage integer instead of the Name string in the example.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...l_computer.asp

on my system it returns the integer 1033, which translates to "English – United States".

There are also multi-language versions of Windows. If you are looking for the user interface language to use, you should call the GetUserDefaultUILanguage function. Also, see MSDN: Developing Multilingual Applications.