So I always wondered why Visual Studio always had everything in a 1033 folder on my hard drive and I saw the number around so much. Maybe some of you knew what it was but I never bothered to look it up or put two and two together until today.

1033 is the LCID language code for English. Therefore, French is 1036, Spanish is 3082, German is 1031, etc. Not a terribly useful peace of information, but somewhat intersting none the less.

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