Author: William Gerbert 

How can I retrieve a list of available BDE language drivers?  

Answer:

The following Delphi procedure returns a formatted list of available BDE language 
drivers. The procedure can be called as shown in the buttonclick method below.

Add BDE and DBTables to your unit's uses clause.

1   procedure GetLdList(Lines: TStrings);
2   var
3     hCur: hDBICur;
4     LD: LDDesc;
5     cnt: integer;
6   begin
7     // get a cursor to the in-mem table containing language
8     // driver information...
9     cnt := 0;
10    check(dbiinit(nil));
11    Check(DbiOpenLdList(hCur));
12    try
13      while (DbiGetNextRecord(hCur, dbiNOLOCK, @LD, nil) = DBIERR_NONE) do
14      begin
15        cnt := cnt + ;
16        Lines.Add(format('%4d %-6s%- 0s %- 0s%5s %- 0s %- 0s', [cnt, 'Name:', 
17  LD.szName,
18          'Code Page:', IntToStr(LD.iCodePage), 'Description:', LD.szDesc]));
19      end;
20    finally Check(DbiCloseCursor(hCur));
21      check(dbiexit);
22    end;
23  end;
24  
25  procedure TForm.Button Click(Sender: TObject);
26  begin
27    getldlist(memo.lines);
28  end;
29  
30  end.