Boolean values in local language

Question

This question has been asked long time ago on serverfault but no working awnser. I'm hoping somebody has encountered it and found a solution since then.

Example:

<%
Response.Write True
Response.Write "<hr>"
Response.Write "test:" & True
%>

Output:

True
--------------
test:Waar

As you can see, as soon as you combine the output, its turned into a local string ('Waar' is dutch for true). I need it to stay "True".

How can I change this? I dont mind putting some code at the beginning of the pages, but I cannot change all instances of True in the entire code. So creating a function like below to return the correct string wont do.

Function PB(pVal)
  If pVal Then
    PB = "true"
  Else
    PB = "false"
  End If
End Function

Answer 1

Strange, I cannot get my IIS to output a boolean value in my local language no matter which locale is set.

Did you find this KB article already?

There is a description of a registry setting that could do the trick:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OLEAUT

I don't want to mess with my production server, so I didn't try this yet.

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FIRST ANSWER:

You could 'trick' VB to use your own functions. If you add these functions to the top of your page, VB will prefer these over the builtin ones, in this case CStr and Trim. Maybe this helps.

    Function PB(pVal)
        If pVal Then
            PB = "true"
        Else
            PB = "false"
        End If
    End Function

    Function CStr(pVal)
        CStr = PB(pVal)
    End Function

    Function Trim(pVal)
        Trim = PB(pVal)
    End Function

Output:

    True
    --------------
    test:true
    --------------
    test:true
    --------------
    test:true

Answer 2

I do something like this, but currently don't have a machine to test your case:

<%
Response.Write FormatDateTime(Now) & "<br />"
oldLocale = SetLocale(1026) 'Bulgarian
Response.Write FormatDateTime(Now) & "<br />"
SetLocale oldLocale 
Response.Write FormatDateTime(Now) & "<br />"
%>

... from another SO question, it looks the above doesn't work.

What hapopens if you try these: Response.Write "test:" & CStr(True) or Response.Write "test:" & Trim(True) with or w/o SetLocale?

Answer 3

that is just like string concatenation works in vbscript.

from the vbscript language reference:

"Whenever an expression is not a string, it is converted to a String subtype. If both expressions are Null, result is also Null. However, if only one expression is Null, that expression is treated as a zero-length string ("") when concatenated with the other expression. Any expression that is Empty is also treated as a zero-length string."