The StringTable structure depicts the organization of data in a file-version resource. This structure is not a true C-language structure because it contains variable-length members. This structure was created solely to depict the organization of data in a version resource and does not appear in any of the header files shipped with the Microsoft Win32 Software Development Kit (SDK).
The StringTable structure contains language and code-page formatting information for the strings specified by the Children member. A code page is an ordered character set.
StringTable {
WORD wLength;
WORD wValueLength;
WORD wType;
WCHAR szKey[];
String Children[];
};
Members
wLength
Specifies the length of the version resource.
wValueLength
Specifies the length of the Value member in the current VS_VERSION_INFO structure. This value is zero if there is no Value member associated with the current version structure.
wType
Specifies the type of data in the version resource. This member is 1 if the version resource contains text data and 0 if the version resource contains binary data.
szKey
Specifies an 8-digit hexadecimal number stored as a Unicode string. The four most significant digits represent the language identifier. The four least significant digits represent the code page for which the data is formatted.
Each Microsoft Standard Language identifier contains two parts: the low-order 10 bits specify the major language, and the high-order 6 bits specify the sublanguage. For a table of valid identifiers see Language Identifiers.
Padding
Contains as many zero words as necessary to align the Children member on a 32-bit boundary.
Children
Specifies a list of zero or more String structures.
Remarks
The Children member of the StringFileInfo structure contains at least one StringTable structure with an szKey value of "04091200". This value indicates that the language is U.S. English and the code page is Unicode.
The code page portion of the szKey member can be set to 1200 (decimal) or 0x04b0 (hexadecimal) to indicate Unicode. The code page can also be set to the value that is appropriate for the language component. After you choose the value for the code page you should continue to use the same value in later revisions to the file.
An executable file or dynamic-link library (DLL) that supports multiple languages should have a version resource for each language, rather than a single version resource that contains strings in several languages.
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