Re: System error messages in other languages

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From: Rob Kennedy
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:51

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Michael Winter wrote:
> Now if an error occurs on the server (e. g. GetLastError returns 2, i. e.
> File not found), the client in question would get the message generated by
> SysErrorMessage in german, the server's machine language, which is a bit
> annoying for a non german user.

Could you just send the numeric error code, and let the client machine 
generate the error message using the local language?

You can pass a language identifier as the fourth parameter to 
FormatMessage. The OS needs to know that language.

-- 
Rob

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