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.NET Forum / .NET Framework / Internationalization / July 2004system code page
Is there user GUI available to display the current system code page in WIndows XP? How about a command line utility? And finally, how about a system API call to get the current code page? I hope this question actually makes sense. Iwant to know what code page MFC programs not written for UNICODE will use to translate to UICODE. Thanks Richard "Richard Otter" <sorry@yahoo.com> wrote... > Is there user GUI available to display the current system code page in > WIndows XP? The advanced tab of Regional and Language Options has the "Language for non-Unicode Programs", which is the default system locale. The default system code page is the ACP of that locale. > How about a command line utility? CHCP will tell you the active OEM code page (CP_OEMCP) if run with no arguments. > And finally, how about a system API call to get the current code page? Well, GetACP() and GetOEMCP() should be able to help you here.  SignatureMichKa [MS] NLS Collation/Locale/Keyboard Development Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies Windows International Division This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Thanks. So, on a default US English system, the console uses CP 437 and windows apps use CP 1252. I've been looking in the MSDN library and can't find a table that lists the code page number for each platform language. Any pointers? I'm particularly interested in testing our legacy non-unicode MFC app for support of multi byte code pages and I'm not sure where to start. I figured that I need to get a good understnading of how code pages are "used" by non-unicode apps. The biggest issue, I think, is in dealing with file names, which are always encoded in Unicode. Richard > "Richard Otter" <sorry@yahoo.com> wrote... > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Well, GetACP() and GetOEMCP() should be able to help you here. "Richard Otter" <sorry@yahoo.com> wrote... > So, on a default US English system, the console uses CP 437 and > windows apps use CP 1252. Yes. Much of Western Europe uses 1252 and 850 (rather than 437). > I've been looking in the MSDN library and can't find a table that lists the > code page number for each platform language. Any pointers? Sites like http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/nlsweb list them out.... > I'm particularly interested in testing our legacy non-unicode MFC app for > support of multi byte code pages and I'm not sure where to start. I figured [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > The biggest issue, I think, is in dealing with file names, which are always > encoded in Unicode. Yes, there are many cases where you cannot represent every item in one that is in the other, but the roundtripping works okay because the display issue of the "wrong glyph" is just a display issue. SignatureMichKa [MS] NLS Collation/Locale/Keyboard Development Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies Windows International Division This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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