I am currently working on ensuring that a chunk of VB6 code behave well on particular targeted versions of windows as part of an internationalised release of a software product. In order to complete the user experience I needed to detect whether or not we were running on one of the few windows versions that works RightToLeft instead of LeftToRight (I believe this is just Arabic and Hebrew windows although I may be wrong!). I’ve spent a good few hours over the past couple of days trying to track a way of doing this down. Searching MSDN and the www via google brought no luck. I tried a great variety of search terms including: “RightToLeft Windows detecting“, “RTL”
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