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Windows allows configuration of Measurement system to Metric or U.S. Is there a way to use this setting to read (abbreviated) unit names in C#? e.g. when displaying a weight in Metric I want to show kg but in U.S. I want to show lb . Similarly for length, volume, etc. I've looked at SystemInformation, CultureInfo, Configuration, and Globalization, but didn't see anything obvious. Did I miss something or am I looking in the wrong place? I believe the best you can do is to determine if your culture is metric or not and then handle it yourself. I don't think there's any built in formatting? I may

I am creating an application for student. I need to enter data in Hindi or Marathi. When user clicks on specific topic then user should be able to listen this topic in Hindi Or Marathi. I know How to set Language in TextToSpeech like Tts.setLanguage(Locale.US); I need to set Hindi or Marathi Language. My question is that how to use Marathi or Hindi Language in TextToSpeech. Please give me any reference or hint. You need a text-to-speech (TTS) engine that supports Hindi. Each TTS engine has specific languages that it supports. Here is a TTS engine that supports Hindi , but this runs on Windows.

I am writing a CSV exporter in Java that should respect the user's custom settings, especially the "List separator" to use as a delimiter. In Windows, one can set this List separator in Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Regional Options -> Customize I don't know about the other operating systems, but I'm pretty sure that you can change that on other OSes, too. What is the best way to get this custom setting from the OS into Java? I am in an Eclipse RCP environment, so I might use RCP-related solutions if there is something available. Jonik From comments of this answer : Reading

If I need to generate a keyboard layout for customization to the user that looks like his/her keyboard, how can I do it? For instance something like this: French, Swedish, English, Canadian, etc will have different layouts, right. Is this a lot of work or just a matter of using some sort of built in .NET regional classes? Rich Tebb A key press generates a hardware event that reports a "scan code" to the Windows operating system. This scan code is then converted into a "virtual key code" based on the scan code along with other keyboard state factors ( Caps Lock state, Shift / Alt / Ctrl

How can you detect whether iPhone is displaying time in 12-Hour or 24-Hour Mode? I currently monitor the current region for changes, however that's not the only setting that affects how times are displayed. The 24-hour toggle in the date & time settings overrides the current regions settings. Is there any way to detect this 12/14 hour setting? I've figured out a decent way of determining this with a little function I've added to a category of NSLocale . It appears to be pretty accurate and haven't found any problems with it while testing with several regions. @implementation NSLocale (Misc) -

Gah! This is really causing me hassle today. Suddenly without warning '@' (at symbol) and '"' (double quote) are trading places on my keyboard but ONLY in Visual Studio 2008! I can't seem to find anything in help or online to explain/remedy this. Is there some keyboard shortcut I am inadvertently executing? I rebooted my PC and it went away for an hour or two and then suddenly came back. Oh, the insanity :( I have tried the same thing, but it turned out to be because I was hitting Alt+Shift in certain programs, thus triggering the language switch in Windows. Could it be that you accidentally