INFO: System Versus User Locale Identifiers

ID: Q100488

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK)

SUMMARY

In Windows NT version 3.1, the following pairs of application programming interfaces (APIs) have the same functionality:

   GetSystemDefaultLCID()   and GetUserDefaultLCID()
   GetSystemDefaultLangID() and GetUserDefaultLangID()

The user LangID and LCID are always set to the system value. In future versions of Windows NT, it will be possible to set the LangID and the LCID on a per-user basis.

Note that it is possible to set the LCID on a per-thread basis [that is, SetThreadLocale()] in Windows NT 3.1.

Additional query words:

Keywords          : kbNTOS kbSysSettings kbGrpUser kbWinOS95 kbWinOS98 kbIntlDev 
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: December 24, 1998