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Here are the consolidated answers to the original question from
Kamal Mansour (kamal@netcom.com):

>
> I would like to find the format of the language-specific modules
> under Microsoft Windows 3.1. These are the modules which taylor
> the language behavior under Windows; please note that these are
> not the keyboard modules. As far as I can tell, the format & building
> process for the language modules is not documented in the SDK or
> DDK sold by Microsoft.
>
> Are they written in assembly or C? Is their format a trade secret?
>

Jeff
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Sender: anoosh@wildcat.mti.sgi.com (Anoosh Hosseini)

>From what MS has said so far (though they dont discuss it too much)
Internationalization is to be done by MS, thus they do not provide info
so John and Harry can create their own ethic versions. If you
have a great way of doing localization for X or Y, your only choice is to
work a deal with MS.

-anoosh

P.S. If you hack around enough you can figure it out though.


Sender: Bjorn Fahller <fahller@ppc.ubc.ca>

I'm not sure what it is you are asking for. All the information needed to
write international applications under MS-Win3.1 is available in the
[intl] section of win.ini. It's not always smooth and easy to use, but it
is available.

You could have a look at a DLL I wrote for Win3.0 (works under Win3.1, but
there is a quirk with the sLanguage variable). It's called INTL.ZIP and should
be found on most ftp sites that carry Windows developing stuff.

[Note from Jeff: Bjorn's DLL is available from our anonymous ftp server

     Site:      rhino.cis.vutbr.cz
     Directory: pub/lists/insoft-l/software/ms-windows
     File:      intl.zip

]