[Python-Dev] Re: \ud800 crashes interpreter (PR#384)

[Fredrik Lundh]

mal wrote:
> Ideal would be another API for win32 which allows querying
> the active language (it would have to return an RFC 1766
> language code or we could add aliasis to the locale_alias
> database).

A quick look indicates that Windows uses "language identifiers":
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winbase/nls_8xo3.htm

Maybe Bill can dig up some better way to do this (a "language
identifier to language code" table would be nice. There's one
in Windows 2000 ;-)

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