How to get list of all installed input locales?

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In the last post we spoke about how to find what locale is currently selected as active. Now it's time to find how many and what input locales are installed on a PC.

Here are two overloaded functions: one returns locale IDs as integer values (e.g. 1049) and the second – as two characters ISO strings (e.g. "en"):

 /// <summary>

 /// Returns list of installed locales

 /// </summary>

 /// <param name="LangList">Contains integer values of installed locales</param>

 public void GetInstalledLanguages(out IList<int> LangList)

 {

    LangList = new List<int>(InputLanguage.InstalledInputLanguages.Count);

 

    foreach (InputLanguage lng in InputLanguage.InstalledInputLanguages)

    {

        LangList.Add(lng.Culture.KeyboardLayoutId);

    }

 }

 

 /// <summary>

 /// Returns list of installed locales

 /// </summary>

 /// <param name="LangList">Contains string values of installed locales</param>

 public void GetInstalledLanguages(out IList<string> LangList)

 {

    LangList = new List<string>(InputLanguage.InstalledInputLanguages.Count);

 

    foreach (InputLanguage lng in InputLanguage.InstalledInputLanguages)

    {

        LangList.Add(lng.Culture.TwoLetterISOLanguageName);

    }

 }