I'm working on some system data collection tools for an application I'm involved in supporting, and have run into an exciting wrinkle.
I wanted to capture an msinfo32 /nfo report as part of the collected data, since it's so comprehensive. But there's a fun problem.
The XML from a system with German as set as the display language looks like this:
<Data>
<Element><![CDATA[Betriebsystemname]]></Element>
<Wert><![CDATA[Microsoft Windows 10 Pro]]></Wert>
</Data>
"wert" is the german word for "Value".
So some, but not all, tags appear to get translated to the local language. Just for fun.
(It's also absolutely ghastly who-designed-this-crock XML, but that I can work around).
I'm looking for a way to override the tag translation, or failing that a way to run one program in Windows with a different display language. On a UNIX system I'd just set LC_ALL=C or LC_ALL=en_US. On Windows, not so much. I'm aware of AppLocale, but it seems to be for legacy non-Unicode programs and mainly focused on dealing with charsets.
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