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

[Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti <afvaiv@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden H. Leverich wrote:

> 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, if I start writing a letter with MS Word, and type a nice 
sentence starting with:
          " Valencia, 15 de dici"

As soon as I type "dici", which are the starting letters for "diciembre" 
in Spanish, a small window pops-up suggesting that month's name, all in 
lowercase. What pops-up in your system?

I think many people would write month and weekdays names in lowercase, 
so I would not consider it a MS Bug...
Tha fact I'd like to have them with the first letter capitalized doesn't 
mean everybody else should agree... (<Big grin>)
Also, I don't think .NET would help at all.
I'm surprised you found 135 DLLs with Wednesday, but I don't think MS 
will "relay" on "translation as part of the base C runtime"...
I would have assumed all specifics for a language and/or country would 
be in what they call "regional settings" (Control Panel) or be located 
somewhere in the Registry. It seems Delphy, as well as Java (and I guess 
other programs as well) will retrieve that kind of data (as whether to 
use decimal point or comma, currency sign, date formating d/m/y or m/d/y 
, 2 or 4 digits year, etc) as what uses to be called "Locale" ...  Since 
this Locale exists, don't think they'll have implemented translation in 
C. It's much easier for them to store that specific translation somewhere...
But where?
TIA

--
Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti
afvaiv@xxxxxxxxxx