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LanguageOrder

The LanguageOrder function determines the order in which strings in two different languages should be sorted.

FUNCTION LanguageOrder (language1, language2: LangCode): Integer;

language1

The language code of the first language.

language2

The language code of the second language.

DESCRIPTION

LanguageOrder takes a pair of language codes and determines in which order strings from the first language should be sorted relative to strings from the second language. It returns a value that indicates the sorting order: -1 if strings in the first language should be sorted before sorting text in the second language, 1 if strings in the first language should be sorted after sorting strings in the second language, or 0 if the sorting order does not matter (that is, if the languages are the same).

Explicit language code values are listed in the chapter "Script Manager"; implicit language codes are listed in Table 5-13 on page 5-55 of this chapter. The implicit language codes scriptCurLang and scriptDefLang are not valid for LanguageOrder because the script system being used is not specified as a parameter to this function.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

LanguageOrder may move memory; your application should not call this function at interrupt time.

ASSEMBLY-LANGUAGE INFORMATION

The trap macro and routine selector for the LanguageOrder function are

Trap macro	Selector
_Pack6	$0020