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Re: Internationalization support in Windows ????

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From: Bjorn Fahller
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:28
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In <1992Jul29.050703.25472@APS.Atex.Kodak.COM> bcs@kodiak.epps.kodak.com (Brett Sorenson) writes:


>	Does anyone know if Window 3.0 or 3.1 provide any support besides what
>	you can get from the 'win.ini' file.

Unfortunately it doesn't. I expected the win3.1 API to do so, but it doesn't.

>       I need to be able to use the
>	long date format in my windows application, but I find it hard to 
>	believe that there isn't an API in windows which you would pass it
>	the long date string from 'win.ini' and it would pass you back a 
>	structure that tells you stuff like : the order (MDY, YDM ...), the
>	delimeters between each, whether or not day of the week was specified.
>	Is there any public domain DLL's out there that can do this???

I've written a shareware DLL that does this (and more). It's called "The INTL
Package" and can be retrieved from cica as pub/pc/win3/misc/intl.zip

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/Bjorn.
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Subject: Re: Internationalization support in Windows ????
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