Is it possible to get current locale of a thread living inside another Windows process? Is there a utility that shows this or maybe a Win32 API call?
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Is it possible to get current locale of a thread living inside another Windows process? Is there a utility that shows this or maybe a Win32 API call?
The locale is stored in the TEB, so you would have to be able to open the process with PROCESS_VM_READ rights and the thread with THREAD_QUERY_INFORMATION and then call OpenThread()+NtQueryInformationThread(ThreadBasicInformation) and then get the TEB address in THREAD_BASIC_INFORMATION and read it with ReadProcessMemory().
All of this is undocumented and could change at any time, you also need to handle WOW64 etc…