Where is the list of available Windows locales?

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Published on 2010-07-21T12:48:03Z Indexed on 2012/06/26 21:20 UTC
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If you open the Regional and Language Options (via Control Panel), and click on the Regional Options tab, then there is a drop down list of all the available locales.

Where is this list populated from?

(I want to compare the settings for each locale; I'm fine with how to do that, but I need a list of locale names to loop over.)

EDIT: After browsing through my windows directory (should probably mention I'm using XP), the file

C:\WINDOWS\system32\locale.nls

looks like a plausible candidate, but it's a binary file. Is this what I should be looking at, and if so, how do I read it?

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