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2 Simple DirectMedia Layer
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3 Copyright (C) 1997-2025 Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
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13 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not
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19 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.
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20 */
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22 /**
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23 * # CategoryLocale
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24 *
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25 * SDL locale services.
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26 *
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27 * This provides a way to get a list of preferred locales (language plus
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28 * country) for the user. There is exactly one function:
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29 * SDL_GetPreferredLocales(), which handles all the heavy lifting, and offers
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30 * documentation on all the strange ways humans might have configured their
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31 * language settings.
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32 */
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33
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34 #ifndef SDL_locale_h
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35 #define SDL_locale_h
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36
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37 #include <SDL3/SDL_stdinc.h>
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38 #include <SDL3/SDL_error.h>
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40 #include <SDL3/SDL_begin_code.h>
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41 /* Set up for C function definitions, even when using C++ */
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42 #ifdef __cplusplus
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43 /* *INDENT-OFF* */
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44 extern "C" {
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45 /* *INDENT-ON* */
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46 #endif
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47
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48 /**
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49 * A struct to provide locale data.
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50 *
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51 * Locale data is split into a spoken language, like English, and an optional
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52 * country, like Canada. The language will be in ISO-639 format (so English
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53 * would be "en"), and the country, if not NULL, will be an ISO-3166 country
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54 * code (so Canada would be "CA").
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55 *
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56 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
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57 *
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58 * \sa SDL_GetPreferredLocales
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59 */
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60 typedef struct SDL_Locale
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61 {
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62 const char *language; /**< A language name, like "en" for English. */
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63 const char *country; /**< A country, like "US" for America. Can be NULL. */
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64 } SDL_Locale;
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66 /**
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67 * Report the user's preferred locale.
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68 *
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69 * Returned language strings are in the format xx, where 'xx' is an ISO-639
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70 * language specifier (such as "en" for English, "de" for German, etc).
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71 * Country strings are in the format YY, where "YY" is an ISO-3166 country
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72 * code (such as "US" for the United States, "CA" for Canada, etc). Country
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73 * might be NULL if there's no specific guidance on them (so you might get {
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74 * "en", "US" } for American English, but { "en", NULL } means "English
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75 * language, generically"). Language strings are never NULL, except to
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76 * terminate the array.
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77 *
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78 * Please note that not all of these strings are 2 characters; some are three
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79 * or more.
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80 *
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81 * The returned list of locales are in the order of the user's preference. For
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82 * example, a German citizen that is fluent in US English and knows enough
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83 * Japanese to navigate around Tokyo might have a list like: { "de", "en_US",
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84 * "jp", NULL }. Someone from England might prefer British English (where
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85 * "color" is spelled "colour", etc), but will settle for anything like it: {
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86 * "en_GB", "en", NULL }.
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87 *
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88 * This function returns NULL on error, including when the platform does not
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89 * supply this information at all.
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90 *
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91 * This might be a "slow" call that has to query the operating system. It's
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92 * best to ask for this once and save the results. However, this list can
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93 * change, usually because the user has changed a system preference outside of
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94 * your program; SDL will send an SDL_EVENT_LOCALE_CHANGED event in this case,
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95 * if possible, and you can call this function again to get an updated copy of
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96 * preferred locales.
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97 *
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98 * \param count a pointer filled in with the number of locales returned, may
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99 * be NULL.
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100 * \returns a NULL terminated array of locale pointers, or NULL on failure;
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101 * call SDL_GetError() for more information. This is a single
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102 * allocation that should be freed with SDL_free() when it is no
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103 * longer needed.
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104 *
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105 * \since This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.
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106 */
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107 extern SDL_DECLSPEC SDL_Locale ** SDLCALL SDL_GetPreferredLocales(int *count);
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109 /* Ends C function definitions when using C++ */
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110 #ifdef __cplusplus
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111 /* *INDENT-OFF* */
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112 }
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113 /* *INDENT-ON* */
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114 #endif
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115 #include <SDL3/SDL_close_code.h>
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117 #endif /* SDL_locale_h */