SetLocale Question

Hello world,

when I alter the locale setting in a VBScript (SetLocale), will the change
only be valid within that VBScript file or will it permanently change the
computer's locale setting (even after the script is done)?

Jens

Michael
Sat Jan 17 01:03:52 CST 2004

> when I alter the locale setting in a VBScript (SetLocale), will the
> change only be valid within that VBScript file or will it permanently
> change the computer's locale setting (even after the script is done)?


The scope of SetLocale is that specific script instance only...


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Jens
Sat Jan 17 03:01:04 CST 2004

> The scope of SetLocale is that specific script instance only...

Thanks!

Torgeir
Sat Jan 17 14:20:08 CST 2004

Jens Lenge wrote:

> when I alter the locale setting in a VBScript (SetLocale), will the change
> only be valid within that VBScript file or will it permanently change the
> computer's locale setting (even after the script is done)?

Hi

As Michael wrote, it's for the script instance only. Especially when writing a
script with a potential "international" use and that that deals with the
decimal symbol is some way or another, it is very important to use the
SetLocale to avoid errors (in the US, a period is used for the decimal symbol,
but e.g. in Norway it is a comma).

Here is an example on this:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=400730EC.F3E85283@hydro.com


In those type of situations, I try to always remember to put <SetLocale
"en-us"> in the script (and if I need to type the decimal symbol use a period),
some examples here:

http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=SetLocale%20en-us&as_ugroup=microsoft.public.*&as_uauthors=torgeir%20bakken



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