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Message: [QUOTE="yogeshmk, post: 3608923"] I'm writing an application which is required to function with many languages and also compile on Linux & windows. Here's how I find the locale .. # include <stdio.h> # include <locale.h> int main(void) { unsigned char* loc = NULL; loc = setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, NULL); puts (loc); return 0; } Depending upon what string 'loc' contains, I need to write "hello world" (or any other message) in the corrosponding language (there are separate header files with texts in different languages coded in a struct. I've ran this piece of code on RedHat linux (en_US.UTF-8), Windows XP (??) and Ubuntu linux (on which the `locale` *command* returns "en_IN.UTF-8" which is correct). However, I observe that the function always returns "C" as the locale. Q1. What explains this behaviour of 'setlocale()' Q2. Any other way to find out the currently set language on the computer? cheers! [/QUOTE]