DosQueryMessageCP

DosQueryMessageCP retrieves the message file list of code pages and language identifiers.

Syntax

DosQueryMessageCP(pb, cb, pszFilename, cbBuf)

Parameters

pb (PCHAR) - output

Pointer to the caller's buffer area.

This buffer area is where the system returns the requested message file list of code pages and language identifiers.

cb (ULONG) - input

The length, in bytes, of pb.

pszFilename (PSZ) - input

The file specification of the message file.

The drive designation and path are optional. This specifies a file that was previously prepared by the MKMSGF utility program.

cbBuf (PULONG) - output

Pointer to the ULONG that receives the actual length, in bytes, of the returned data.

ulrc (APIRET) - returns

Return Code.

DosQueryMessageCP returns one of the following values:

0 NO_ERROR

2 ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND

206 ERROR_FILENAME_EXCED_RANGE

318 ERROR_MR_UN_ACC_MSGF

319 ERROR_MR_INV_MSGF_FORMAT

321 ERROR_MR_UN_PERFORM

Remarks

The system returns the requested message file list of code pages and language identifiers in the caller's buffer (pb). It has the following format:

Length	Field
USHORT	Code page count (N)
USHORT	Code page identifier. This field occurs N times, once per code page.
ULONG	Language identifier

This data structure is repeated for each subfile within the specified message file.

The code page identifier can have the values specified in COUNTRYCODE.

The language identifier is a ULONG. The low-order word identifies a language family, and the high-order word identifies a specific version of that language (a sublanguage).

The language and sublanguage identifier values 0 through 255 are reserved for system use. The values 256 through 511 are reserved for application use.

The MKMSGF utility program performs range checking on the language and sublanguage identifier values. The value 0 means a null or unspecified language or sublanguage. Only the values defined in the following table are valid below 256. Any values from 256 through 511 are valid. Any identifier value greater than 511 is invalid.

The following table shows the valid language and sublanguage identifier values. Column 1 is the language family identifier, and column 2 is the sublanguage identifier. Column 3 shows the language, and column 4 shows the principal country for this language.

Family	Subl.	Language	Principal country
0	0	null	null
1	1	Arabic	Arab countries
2	1	Bulgarian	Bulgaria
3	2	Spanish	Spain
3	3	Spanish Mexican	Mexico
4	1	Traditional Chinese	Republic of China
4	2	Simplified Chinese	People's Republic of China
5	1	Czech	Czechoslovakia
6	1	Danish	Denmark
7	1	German	Germany
7	2	Swiss German	Switzerland
8	1	Greek	Greece
9	1	U.K. English	United Kingdom
9	2	U.S. English	United States
10	1	Finnish	Finland
11	1	French	France
11	2	Belgian French	Belgium
11	3	Canadian French	Canada
11	4	Swiss French	Switzerland
12	1	Hebrew	Israel
13	1	Hungarian	Hungary
14	1	Icelandic	Iceland
15	1	Italian	Italy
15	2	Swiss Italian	Switzerland
16	1	Japanese	Japan
17	1	Korean	Korea
18	1	Dutch	Netherlands
18	2	Belgian Dutch	Belgium
19	1	Norwegian - Bokmal	Norway
19	2	Norwegian - Nynorsk	Norway
20	1	Polish	Poland
21	1	Portuguese	Portugal
22	2	Brazilian Portuguese	Brazil
23	1	Rhaeto-Romanic	Switzerland
24	1	Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic)	Yugoslavia
24	2	Serbo-Croatian (Latin)	Yugoslavia
25	1	Slovakian	Czechoslovakia
26	1	Albanian	Albania
27	1	Swedish	Sweden
28	1	Thai	Thailand
29	1	Turkish	Turkey
30	1	Urdu	Pakistan
31	1	Russian	U.S.S.R.
32	1	Catalan	Spain

Example Code

This example queries the number of code pages and the first code page and language identifier from the file "SAMPLE.MSG". The result of the query has the format specified be the _MYCPINFO structure.

#define INCL_DOSMISC    /* Miscellaneous values */
#define INCL_DOSERRORS  /* DOS Error values */
#include <os2.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(VOID) {

typedef struct _MYCPINFO
 {  USHORT       cCP;          /* Number of code pages */
    USHORT       CP1;          /* First code page      */
    ULONG        dtype;
 } MYCPINFO;

UCHAR     uchBuffer[20] = {0};            /* Buffer for the returned list */
MYCPINFO  CPinfo         = {0};           /* Pointer to buffer */
ULONG     ulDataLen      = 0;             /* Length of data returned */
APIRET    rc             = NO_ERROR;      /* Return code */

 rc = DosQueryMessageCP( (PUCHAR) &CPinfo,
                         sizeof(MYCPINFO),
                         "SAMPLE.MSG",
                         &ulDataLen );

 if (rc != NO_ERROR) {
      printf("DosQueryMessageCP error: return code = %u\n", rc);
      return 1;
 } else {
      printf("SAMPLE.MSG:  %u Code Page(s) - Code Page 1 = %u.\n",
                                        CPinfo.cCP, CPinfo.CP1);
 } /* endif */

return NO_ERROR;
}

Related Functions

• DosGetMessage
• DosInsertMessage
• DosPutMessage