How can I manually determine the CodePage and Locale of the current OS

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  •  12-09-2019
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Question

Is there a way that I manually have a user look up the current Codepage and locale of their windows OS? Is there a registry setting that stores that information?

It would also be useful if the technique worked all the way back to Windows 2000.

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Solution

The Win32 GetACP() function works back to Windows 2000 to find the ANSI code page.

The GetLocaleInfo() function works also back to Windows 2000. Call it with a Locale parameter of LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT (or LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, etc.)

If your question is not how you can get this data programmatically, but instead how a non-programmer can look up this info, then you probably want to post the question on ServerFault which is the right spot for questions like that.

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