Well, Win32::API::Types lists LANGID as 's', which I assume means a (signed?) short. Actually, LANGID is typedef'd as WORD (in <winnt.h>), which is an unsigned short (not a LONG), so specifying USHORT should have fixed it, but still doesn't.

Your idea of specifying LONG certainly produces some output: I get similar output to you: 

Returned '2011563020'
Lang ID: 0x77E6040C

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but it's utter crap: the Lang ID is actually 0x0809 (2057) for UK English or 0x0409 (1033) for US English. (And the C program in my original post correctly produces these numbers.)

How do I get the /right/ answer out of it, not just any old rubbish?

In reply to Re^2: How to call GetSystemDefaultLangID() with Win32::API by shay
in thread How to call GetSystemDefaultLangID() with Win32::API by shay

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