IsValidLocale returns FALSE - how to overcome this?

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Published on 2009-06-25T09:14:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 7:03 UTC
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When run on a Spanish version of Windows XP my program invokes

LANGID langId = (LANGID) MAKELANGID( LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_DEFAULT );
LCID locale = MAKELCID( language, SORT_DEFAULT ); 
BOOL isValid = IsValidLocale( locale, LCID_INSTALLED );

IsValideLocale() return FALSE when asked about English locale. Obviously something must be tuned in Windows to change this behaviour. What exactly should I do?

I understand that it's not completely a programming question but rather a deployment question. Still I think it will be better off here than anywhere else.

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