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OpenLocale -- open a locale. (V38)
locale = OpenLocale(name);
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struct Locale *OpenLocale(STRPTR);
This function opens a named locale. Locales contain many parameters
that an application needs to consider when being integrated into
different languages, territories and customs. Using the information
stored in a locale instead of hard-coding it into an application,
lets the application dynamically adapt to the user's environment.
Locales originally come from disk files which are created by the
user using the Locale preferences editor. Passing a NULL instead of
a name causes this function to return the current default locale.
This is what most applications will do.
Every locale specifies a language, and special language drivers
must be loaded from disk depending on which language is being used.
These files include for example:
LOCALE:Languages/français.language
LOCALE:Languages/dansk.language
LOCALE:Languages/italiano.language
name - the NULL-terminated name of the locale to open, or NULL to open
the current default locale. This should generally be NULL. The
name you supply must be a pathname leading to a locale
preferences file. This is an IFF PREF file as saved by
Locale prefs, that can contain both LCLE and CTRY chunks.
See <prefs/locale.h> for definitions.
locale - a pointer to an initialized Locale structure, or NULL if the
locale could not be loaded. In the case of a NULL return, the
DOS IoErr() function can be called to obtain more information
on the failure.
When passing a NULL name parameter to this function, you are
guaranteed a valid return.
CloseLocale(), <libraries/locale.h>, <prefs/locale.h>
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