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"Thorsten Kettner" <QUESTIONBYthorsten.kettner@otto.de> wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>I am trying to build an rc file containing a German stringtable
>and a default string table for all other language settings. 
[snip]

Thank you for your answers Bob and Chris. I know I can build 
separate resource dlls and of course I can use different ids 
for different languages, but I think the way I describe should 
also work and it would be extremely easy to code. I have tested
an rc file with four tables:

#define IDS_TEST 1000

STRINGTABLE DISCARDABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
BEGIN
IDS_TEST "LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL"
END

STRINGTABLE DISCARDABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_GERMAN
BEGIN
IDS_TEST "LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_GERMAN"
END

STRINGTABLE DISCARDABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT
BEGIN
IDS_TEST "LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT"
END

STRINGTABLE DISCARDABLE
LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
BEGIN
IDS_TEST "LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL"
END

Here is what LoadStr/LoadString give me for a specific Windows 
setting:

Windows setting:    LoadString result:
German/Germany      LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_GERMAN
German/Austria      LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
English/UK          LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
English/USA         LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
French/France       LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_GERMAN

You see everything works fine, except for the unknown language
(French in this case). Seeing that it defaults to German/Germany
I thought this is because my computer is German. So I deleted
the rc entries LANG_GERMAN, SUBLANG_GERMAN and LANG_GERMAN,
SUBLANG_NEUTRAL. But then I got LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
for French! This shows LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT is just
not the correct entry for a default, but has some other meaning.
But there must be a default setting! It cannot be that French 
people get a random language!

Does anybody else know how to declare the default stringtable?