The Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) database contains detailed information about character sets, code pages, and locales. Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6 stores the MIME database internally, rather than in the system registry. This ensures that the data remains stable and synchronized.

MLang uses the MIME database to gather the information necessary to convert strings between code pages, as well as to translate code page identifiers to charset names and locale identifiers (LCIDs) to RFC1766-conforming names.

The following list shows the structures used to gather and contain information from the MIME database about specific code pages, character sets, and locales:

• MIMECPINFO
  
  
• MIMECSETINFO
  
  
• RFC1766INFO
  
  

The following list shows the IMultiLanguagemethods to use to obtain information from the MIME database. A number of these methods use this information to convert between RFC1766-conforming names and LCIDs or between Internet character sets and Windows code pages.

• IMultiLanguage2::GetCharsetInfo
  
  
• IMultiLanguage2::GetCodePageInfo
  
  
• IMultiLanguage2::GetFamilyCodePage
  
  
• IMultiLanguage2::GetLcidFromRfc1766
  
  
• IMultiLanguage2::GetNumberOfCodePageInfo
  
  
• IMultiLanguage2::GetRfc1766FromLcid
  
  
• IMultiLanguage2::GetRfc1766Info
  
  

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