How to get system's current language culture name (from locale) in C++

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Please see the first column of the table on following link. I need the language culture name in that format.

Table of Language Culture Names, Codes, and ISO Values Method [C++][^]

Currently i am using GetLocaleInfo to get the information aboout language and country name (and then concatenate them like en-US). But it fails for some languages like Chinese - simplified.

For chinese simplified the code is zh-CHS ..... My method gives me zh-CN.

What is the right way to get this information.

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Currently i am using GetLocaleInfo to get the information aboout language and country name (and then concatenate them like en-US). But it fails for some languages like Chinese - simplified.

For chinese simplified the code is zh-CHS ..... My method gives me zh-CN.

Posted 1-Jun-17 18:41pm

PrafullaVedante

Updated 1-Jun-17 20:24pm

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KarstenK · Answer 1 · 2017-06-01T20:24:00

This job should do your GetLocaleInfo with the correct flags like LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT. Also check out GetLocaleInfoEx and its various flags.

It may depend on the Windows version and may fail on older Windows like the retired XP. So test it on Windows 10. I wouldnt wonder if there is some bug in older Windows in that detail.