localization - Wrong language codes generated by Windows.Globalization.ApplicationLanguages.ManifestLanguages -

i localizing uwp app in several languages using multilingual app toolkit here screen shots of how multilingualresourcesfolder , strings folder looks in project

multilingual resources

strings

all files filled correct values.

in application retrieve list of available languages windows.globalization.applicationlanguages.manifestlanguages , iterate through them. iteration yields these results

• pt-pt
• ro-ro
• ru
• sk
• sl

this strange because languages declared in exaclty same way languages language code includes locale , doesn't , no reason can undestand.

in way declare them iteration should yield

• pt-pt
• ro-ro
• ru-ru
• sk-sk
• sl-sl

i have tried manually declaring languages in appxmanifest replacing x-generate this

<resources>     <resource language="ru-ru"/>     <resource language="sk-sk"/>     <resource language="pt-pt"/>     <resource language="sk-sk"/>     <resource language="sl-sl"/> </resources 

but results same.

i need application recognize locale language every language. can help?

ok, i've got solution you. there's separate issue you're dealing with, why x-generate in manifest isn't doing right thing (or it?). i'm investigating on side.

so, method want:

public static string getlocalefromlanguage(string identifier) {     int result;      stringbuilder localename = new stringbuilder(500);     result = localefunctions.resolvelocalename(identifier, localename, 500);      stringbuilder localedisplay = new stringbuilder(500);     result = localefunctions.getlocaleinfoex(localename.tostring(), lctype.locale_senglishdisplayname, localedisplay, 500);     return localedisplay.tostring(); } 

and of course, you're going need externs:

class localefunctions {     // pinvoke declarations      [dllimport("kernel32.dll", setlasterror = true, charset = charset.unicode)]     public static extern int getlocaleinfoex(string lplocalename, lctype lctype, stringbuilder lplcdata, int cchdata);      [dllimport("kernel32.dll", setlasterror = true, charset = charset.unicode)]     public static extern int resolvelocalename(string lpnametoresolve, stringbuilder lplocalename, int cchlocalename); } 

unfortunately, you're going need declaration lctype. code can found @ link: http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/enums/lctype.html (it's massive chunk of code , don't want copy here.

in code, manually added following language resources manifest (again, i'm not sure why x-generate isn't adding russian locales here, works around it):

<resources>     <resource language="en-us" />     <resource language="es-es" />     <resource language="es-mx" />     <resource language="pt-pt" />     <resource language="ro-ro" />     <resource language="ru-ru" />     <resource language="ru-ua" /> </resources> 

and method i'm using call in:

private void button_click(object sender, routedeventargs e) {     string output = "";     foreach (string thismanifestlanguage in windows.globalization.applicationlanguages.manifestlanguages)     {         output += thismanifestlanguage + ": ";         string resolvedname = localizationtesting.localetest.getlocalefromlanguage(thismanifestlanguage);         output += resolvedname + "\n";     }      this.outputtext.text = output; } 

when called this, output got was:

en-us: english (united states) es-es: spanish (spain, international sort) es-mx: spanish (mexico) pt-pt: portuguese (portugal) ro-ro: romanian (romania) ru: russian (russia) ru-ua: russian (ukraine) 

i should point out in getlocalefromlanguage, localename "ru" gets "ru-ru", if that's you're looking for, that's available too.

let me know if doesn't meet needs. i'll see if can reason why in case, had explicitly add ru-ua manifest.