PRIMARYLANGID info

The PRIMARYLANGID macro extracts a primary language identifier from a language identifier.

WORD PRIMARYLANGID(

Parameters

lgid

Specifies the language identifier. This value is a combination of a primary language identifier and a sublanguage identifier and is usually created by using the MAKELANGID macro.

Return Values

The return value is a primary language identifier. The following primary language identifiers are defined:

LANG_AFRIKAANS	LANG_ICELANDIC
LANG_ALBANIAN	LANG_INDONESIAN
LANG_ARABIC	LANG_ITALIAN
LANG_BASQUE	LANG_JAPANESE
LANG_BELARUSIAN	LANG_KOREAN
LANG_BULGARIAN	LANG_LATVIAN
LANG_CATALAN	LANG_LITHUANIAN
LANG_CHINESE	LANG_NEUTRAL
LANG_CROATIAN	LANG_NORWEGIAN
LANG_CZECH	LANG_POLISH
LANG_DANISH	LANG_PORTUGUESE
LANG_DUTCH	LANG_ROMANIAN
LANG_ENGLISH	LANG_RUSSIAN
LANG_ESTONIAN	LANG_SERBIAN
LANG_FAEROESE	LANG_SLOVAK
LANG_FARSI	LANG_SLOVENIAN
LANG_FINNISH	LANG_SPANISH
LANG_FRENCH	LANG_SWEDISH
LANG_GERMAN	LANG_THAI
LANG_GREEK	LANG_TURKISH
LANG_HEBREW	LANG_UKRANIAN
LANG_HUNGARIAN	LANG_VIETNAMESE

Remarks

The PRIMARYLANGID macro is defined as follows:

#define PRIMARYLANGID(lgid)    ((WORD  )(lgid) & 0x3ff) 

 

See Also

EnumSystemLocales, LANGIDFROMLCID, MAKELANGID, SUBLANGID