Re: [PCTECH] Windows 2000 Global Variables, where stored?

[Mike Wills <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

I was thinking .net programmers work more with the Windows .dll files
and make help pinpoint the dll better.


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:51:01 -0500, Walden H. Leverich
<WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >I think you are asking the wrong group of people. You might need to
> >ask a .net programmers forum or something along that line.
> 
> .NET's got nothing to do with it, although it may have the same problem,
> after all Office isn't a .NET application.
> 
> I don't have the globalized version of XP installed, but a quick scan of
> DLLs in my system32 directory showed 135 DLLs with "Wednesday" in it.
> I'd guess that the translation is part of the base C runtime and is
> copied into each DLL.
> 
> Not to ask a silly question, but why not report it as a bug to MS? It
> would seem to me that an incorrectly capitalized day or month name would
> most certainly be a bug.
> 
> 
> 
> -Walden
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> 
> I think you are asking the wrong group of people. You might need to
> ask a .net programmers forum or something along that line.
> 
> On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 19:50:44 +0100, Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti
> <afvaiv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Walden H. Leverich wrote:
> >
> > >But seriously, what are you trying to accomplish that needs to know
> > >where the data is -- or to put it another way, needs to know HOW an
> API
> > >does what it does?
> > >
> > >-Walden
> > >
> > >
> > Walden,
> > The reason I'd like to know where they are stored is:
> > For some reason  (at least in my spanish PC...) names for week days
> and
> > months are stored all lowercase.
> > I know I can, in Delphi, change first letter to uppercase,
> > programmatically different ways. But also, as I mentioned in my
> original
> > post, also MS Word, Excel use same table...
> > The point is NOT TO HAVE to do this translation everytime. I like
> > weekdays and months names start with a capital letter!
> > What I'd like to do is "patch" those names manually. If they were
> stored
> > in any "*.ini" file, then no problem with any normal editor. But even
> if
> > they are in a "*.dll" file, I could patch them with any Hex editor...
> > So, the question is, where are they stored?
> > Thanks.
> >
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> > Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti
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