(This is the legacy documentation for stable SDL2, the current stable version; SDL3 is the current development version.)

SDL_HINT_PREFERRED_LOCALES

Override for SDL_GetPreferredLocales()

Header File

Defined in SDL_hints.h

Syntax

#define SDL_HINT_PREFERRED_LOCALES "SDL_PREFERRED_LOCALES"

Remarks

If set, this will be favored over anything the OS might report for the user's preferred locales. Changing this hint at runtime will not generate a SDL_LOCALECHANGED event (but if you can change the hint, you can push your own event, if you want).

The format of this hint is a comma-separated list of language and locale, combined with an underscore, as is a common format: "en_GB". Locale is optional: "en". So you might have a list like this: "en_GB,jp,es_PT"

CategoryAPI, CategoryAPIMacro, CategoryHints