Finding the user’s current region using RegionInfo in .NET C#
August 15, 2014 4 Comments
The CultureInfo object helps a lot in finding information about the user’s current culture. However, on occasion it may not be enough and you need to find out more about that user’s regional characteristics. You can easily retrieve a RegionInfo object from CultureInfo which will hold information about a particular country or region.
You can find the current region in two ways from CultureInfo:
CultureInfo cultureInfo = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture; RegionInfo regionInfo = new RegionInfo(cultureInfo.LCID); // or regionInfo = new RegionInfo(cultureInfo.Name); string englishName = regionInfo.EnglishName; string currencySymbol = regionInfo.CurrencySymbol; string currencyEnglishName = regionInfo.CurrencyEnglishName; string currencyLocalName = regionInfo.CurrencyNativeName;
My computer is set to use Swedish-Sweden as the specific culture so I get the following values from top to bottom:
- Sweden
- kr
- Swedish krona
- Svensk krona
If I change the current culture to my home country, i.e. Hungary…
CultureInfo hungaryCulture = new CultureInfo("hu-HU");
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = hungaryCulture;
regionInfo = new RegionInfo(hungaryCulture.LCID);
englishName = regionInfo.EnglishName;
currencySymbol = regionInfo.CurrencySymbol;
currencyEnglishName = regionInfo.CurrencyEnglishName;
currencyLocalName = regionInfo.CurrencyNativeName;
…then the values are of course adjusted accordingly:
- Hungary
- Ft
- Hungarian Forint
- forint
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That’s really Cool !!
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Not same Control Panel: Regional and language options->Standards and formats than Control Panel: Regional and language options->Location
using (var regKeyGeo = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(@”Control Panel\International\Geo”))
{
Response.Write(“Geo Nation ” + regKeyGeo.GetValue(“Nation”).ToString());
}
var iso2 = “US”;
var cultureInfo = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures).Where(c => c.Name.EndsWith(iso2)).ToList();
foreach (System.Globalization.CultureInfo culture in cultureList)
{
Response.Write(” Culture for ” + iso2 + “: ” + culture.DisplayName
+ ” *** ” + culture.NativeName + ” ” + culture.TwoLetterISOLanguageName
+ ” – ” + culture.ThreeLetterISOLanguageName
+ ” – ” + culture.DateTimeFormat.FullDateTimePattern);
}
For US you get chr-US en-US es-US and haw-US : Cheroqui, English, Spanish, Hawai
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8926400/get-cultureinfo-object-from-country-name-or-regioninfo-object
Great article.