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Locales and Localization: Intel® PRO Network Adapters WMI
and CDM Providers User Guide
Localized MOF Files
Localized Attribute Data
There are two aspects to WMI and CDM Provider localization — localized MOF files and localized attribute data.
Localized MOF Files
All the MOF files used by the Providers are localized according to the Microsoft Windows* Management Instrumentation (WMI)
globalization model. To accomplish this, each class definition is separated as follows:
A language-neutral version that contains only the basic class definition in the .mof file.
A language-specific version that contains localized information, such as property descriptions that are specific to a
locale in the corresponding .mfl file.
Supported Languages
Chinese (Taiwan)
Chinese (PRC)
Danish
Dutch (Netherlands)
English (United States)
Finnish
French (France)
German (Germany)
Italian (Italy)
Japanese
Norwegian (Bokmal)
Portuguese (Brazil)
Spanish (Spain - Modern)
Swedish
Class Storage
The language-specific class definitions are stored in a child sub-namespace beneath the namespace that contains a language-
neutral basic class definition. For example, for the WMI and CDM Provider, a child namespace ms_409 will exist beneath the
root/Intelncs namespace for the English locale. Similarly, there exists a child sub-namespace for each supported language
beneath the root/Intelncs namespace.
Localized MOF Support in cimv2 Namespace
For root/cimv2 namespaces, the Providers' classes (i.e., IANet_ classes) are derived from base classes added to this
namespace by WMI. A sub-namespace with language-specific class definitions for base classes pre-exist beneath the
root/cimv2 namespace. The IA_Net language-specific class definitions will be added to this existing child namespace. Due to
this dependency on base classes, MOF localization is done only in the default system locale.
Runtime Support
To retrieve localized data, a WMI application can specify the locale using a strLocale parameter in
SWbemLocator::ConnectServer and IWbemLocator::ConnectServer calls. If the locale is not specified, the default locale
for that system will be used. (e.g. MS_409 for US English). This locale is used to select the correct namespace when adding in
the English strings.
In addition, IWbemServices::GetObject, SwbemServices.GetObject, IWbemServices:: ExecQuery, and
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