SDL_locale.h
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/**
* # CategoryLocale
*
* SDL locale services.
*
* This provides a way to get a list of preferred locales (language plus
* country) for the user. There is exactly one function:
* SDL_GetPreferredLocales(), which handles all the heavy lifting, and offers
* documentation on all the strange ways humans might have configured their
* language settings.
*/
#ifndef SDL_locale_h
#define SDL_locale_h
#include <SDL3/SDL_stdinc.h>
#include <SDL3/SDL_error.h>
#include <SDL3/SDL_begin_code.h>
/* Set up for C function definitions, even when using C++ */
#ifdef __cplusplus
/* *INDENT-OFF* */
extern "C" {
/* *INDENT-ON* */
#endif
/**
* A struct to provide locale data.
*
* Locale data is split into a spoken language, like English, and an optional
* country, like Canada. The language will be in ISO-639 format (so English
* would be "en"), and the country, if not NULL, will be an ISO-3166 country
* code (so Canada would be "CA").
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
*
* \sa SDL_GetPreferredLocales
*/
typedef struct SDL_Locale
{
const char *language; /**< A language name, like "en" for English. */
const char *country; /**< A country, like "US" for America. Can be NULL. */
} SDL_Locale;
/**
* Report the user's preferred locale.
*
* Returned language strings are in the format xx, where 'xx' is an ISO-639
* language specifier (such as "en" for English, "de" for German, etc).
* Country strings are in the format YY, where "YY" is an ISO-3166 country
* code (such as "US" for the United States, "CA" for Canada, etc). Country
* might be NULL if there's no specific guidance on them (so you might get {
* "en", "US" } for American English, but { "en", NULL } means "English
* language, generically"). Language strings are never NULL, except to
* terminate the array.
*
* Please note that not all of these strings are 2 characters; some are three
* or more.
*
* The returned list of locales are in the order of the user's preference. For
* example, a German citizen that is fluent in US English and knows enough
* Japanese to navigate around Tokyo might have a list like: { "de", "en_US",
* "jp", NULL }. Someone from England might prefer British English (where
* "color" is spelled "colour", etc), but will settle for anything like it: {
* "en_GB", "en", NULL }.
*
* This function returns NULL on error, including when the platform does not
* supply this information at all.
*
* This might be a "slow" call that has to query the operating system. It's
* best to ask for this once and save the results. However, this list can
* change, usually because the user has changed a system preference outside of
* your program; SDL will send an SDL_EVENT_LOCALE_CHANGED event in this case,
* if possible, and you can call this function again to get an updated copy of
* preferred locales.
*
* \param count a pointer filled in with the number of locales returned, may
* be NULL.
* \returns a NULL terminated array of locale pointers, or NULL on failure;
* call SDL_GetError() for more information. This is a single
* allocation that should be freed with SDL_free() when it is no
* longer needed.
*
* \threadsafety This function is not thread safe.
*
* \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
*/
extern SDL_DECLSPEC SDL_Locale ** SDLCALL SDL_GetPreferredLocales(int *count);
/* Ends C function definitions when using C++ */
#ifdef __cplusplus
/* *INDENT-OFF* */
}
/* *INDENT-ON* */
#endif
#include <SDL3/SDL_close_code.h>
#endif /* SDL_locale_h */
SDL_begin_code.h
SDL_close_code.h
SDL_error.h
SDL_GetPreferredLocales
SDL_Locale ** SDL_GetPreferredLocales(int *count)
SDL_stdinc.h
SDL_Locale
Definition SDL_locale.h:61
SDL_Locale::country
const char * country
Definition SDL_locale.h:63
SDL_Locale::language
const char * language
Definition SDL_locale.h:62