Microsoft Windows

Programmer Reference : National Language Support : Locales and platform representation : Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

As illustrated in the diagram at the beginning of this section, each VA Smalltalk locale name maps directly to a pair of language and sublanguage identifier constants. The following table defines the mappings from VA Smalltalk locale definitions to language and sublanguage identifier pairs.

Table 56. Windows platform values and VA Smalltalk locale names

VAST Locale Name		Platform Mapping
Language	Territory	Language ID	Sublanguage ID
arabic	arabic	-	-
croatian	yugoCroatian	-	-
czech	czechoslovakia	LANG_CZECH	SUBLANG_DEFAULT
danish	denmark	LANG_DANISH	SUBLANG_DEFAULT
dutch	belgium	LANG_DUTCH	SUBLANG_DUTCH_BELGIAN
dutch	netherlands	LANG_DUTCH	SUBLANG_DUTCH
english	australia	LANG_ENGLISH	SUBLANG_ENGLISH_AUS
english	britain	LANG_ENGLISH	SUBLANG_ENGLISH_UK
english	canada	LANG_ENGLISH	SUBLANG_ENGLISH_CAN
english	ireland	LANG_ENGLISH	SUBLANG_ENGLISH_EIRE
english	new zealand	LANG_ENGLISH	SUBLANG_ENGLISH_nz
english	us	LANG_ENGLISH	SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
estonian	estonia	-	-
faeroese	faeroeIsl	-	-
farsi	iran	-	-
finnish	finland	LANG_FINNISH	SUBLANG_DEFAULT
french	belgium	LANG_FRENCH	SUBLANG_FRENCH_BELGIAN
french	canada	LANG_FRENCH	SUBLANG_FRENCH_CAN- ADIAN
french	france	LANG_RENCH	SUBLANG_FRENCH
french	switzerland	LANG_FRENCH	SUBLANG_FRENCH_SWISS
german	austria	LANG_GERMAN	SUBLANG_GERMAN_AUS- TRIAN
german	germany	LANG_GERMAN	SUBLANG_GERMAN
german	switzerland	LANG_GERMAN	SUBLANG_GERMAN_SWISS
greek	greece	LANG_GREEK	SUBLANG_DEFAULT
hebrew	israel	-	-
hindi	india	-	-
hungarian	hungary	LANG_HUNGARIAN	SUBLANG_DEFAULT
icelandic	iceland	LANG_ICELANDIC	SUBLANG_DEFAULT
italian	italy	LANG_ITALIAN	SUBLANG_ITALIAN
italian	switzerland	LANG_ITALIAN	SUBLANG_ITALIAN_SWISS
japanese	japan	LANG_JAPANESE	SUBLANG_DEFAULT
korean	korea	LANG_KOREAN	SUBLANG_DEFAULT
lappish	lapland	-	-
lettish	latvia	-	-
lithuanian	lithuania	-	-
maltese	malta	-	-
norwegian	norway (Bokmal)	LANG_NORWEGIAN	SUBLANG_NORWEGIAN_BOK- MAL
norwegian	norway (Nynorsk)	LANG_NORWEGIAN	SUBLANG_NORWEGIAN_NY- NORSK
polish	poland	LANG_POLISH	SUBLANG_DEFAULT
portuguese	brazil	LANG_PORTUGUESE	SUBLANG_PORTUGUESE
portuguese	portugal	LANG_PORTUGUESE	SUBLANG_PORTUGUESE_BRA- ZILIAN
russian	russia	LANG_RUSSIAN	SUBLANG_DEFAULT
simpChinese	china	LANG_CHINESE	SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLI- FIED
slovak	czechoslovakia	LANG_SLOVAK	SUBLANG_DEFAULT
spanish	mexico	LANG_SPANISH	SUBLANG_SPANISH_MEXICAN
spanish	spain (Mod)	LANG_SPANISH	SUBLANG_SPANISH_MODERN
spanish	spain (Trad)	LANG_SPANISH	SUBLANG_SPANISH_TRADI- TIONAL
swedish	sweden	LANG_SWEDISH	SUBLANG_DEFAULT
thai	thailand	-	-
tradChinese	taiwan	LANG_CHINESE	SUBLANG_CHINESE_TRADI- TIONAL
turkish	turkey	LANG_TURKISH	SUBLANG_DEFAULT
urdu	pakistan	-	-

Use of the system control panel

NLS information is drawn from the settings of the system control panel. VA Smalltalk recognizes a given locale based upon a specific combination of country and language settings. These parameters are set through the country and language sections of the control panel on Windows.

An attempt to initialize the current locale for a particular locale will fail unless the International control panel has the country and language options set appropriately. For example, on Windows, if English U.S. is the desired locale, the International control panel must have the country set to United States and the Language set to English (American) before the image is started or the locale is manually reinitialized. Note that the language must be set to English (American); that the setting English (International) does not work.

For Windows:

Windows ME unifies the country and language settings into a single selection in the regional control panel, eliminating mismatched language and country selections.

Note:

•When information is unavailable from the platform, English U.S. default values are provided. The following table shows the items that are not available from the operating system, along with their default values.

•The number of decimal digits specified in the number format section of the International control panel is not used.

•The International control panel setting for monetary leading zero is not supported and is ignored.

•VA Smalltalk uses the short date format from the International control panel; the long date format is ignored.

Table 57. Items not provided by Windows and thir default values

Class	Item	VA Smalltalk default value
LCMessages	noStr	'No'
	yesStr	'Yes'

Last modified date: 05/11/2020