How to use enable pseudo-locale in Windows for testing?

Question

Windows Vista introduced the concept of three pseudo-locales:

Pseudo Locale        Locale Name  LCID           
===================  ===========  ======
Base         


        

Answer 1

It looks like rather than fixing the localization bugs in .NET, SQL Server, Excel, etc, Microsoft changed the Pseudo locale in Windows 10 to mask the bugs:

| Item                  | Windows 7                | Windows 10            |
|-----------------------|--------------------------|-----------------------|
| Locale Identifier     | 0x0501 (1281)            | 0x0501 (1281)         |
| Locale Name           | qps-ploc                 | qps-ploc              |
| Example Number        | --123,,4567,,8901        | -123,,4567,,8901      |
| Example Currency      | --$$123,,4567,,8901..00  | -$123,,4567,,8901.000 |
| Example Float         | --123,,4567,,8901..00    | -123,,4567,,8901.000  |
| Example Date          | 9//08//2015              | 9/8/2015              |
| Example Time          | 9::51::17 АΜ             | 9:45:09               |
| Example DateTime      | 9//08//2015 9::51::17 АΜ | 9/8/2015 9:45         |
| LOCALE_SLANGUAGE      | Pseudo Language (Pseudo) | Pseudo (Pseudo)       |
| LOCALE_SENGLANGUAGE   | Pseudo Language          | Pseudo                |
| LOCALE_SDECIMAL       | ..                       | .                     |
| LOCALE_SCURRENCY      | $$                       | $                     |
| LOCALE_SMONDECIMALSEP | ..                       | .                     |
| LOCALE_SDATE          | //                       | /                     |
| LOCALE_STIME          | ::                       | :                     |
| LOCALE_SSHORTDATE     | d//MM//yyyy              | d/MM/yy               |
| LOCALE_STIMEFORMAT    | h::mm::ss tt             | H:mm:ss               |
| LOCALE_ITIME          | 0                        | 1                     |
| LOCALE_ICENTURY       | 1                        | 0                     |
| LOCALE_SNEGATIVESIGN  | --                       | -                     |

I can understand not wanting to fix your bugs, because you're lazy it's too hard. But you should have been forced to wear your shame for all to see.

Instead you cop-out and try to hide your failure. That's just bad.