Tips and tricks in C# .NET
January 24, 2017 Leave a comment
The CultureInfo class helps you get the names of days and months in various languages that belong to the selected culture.
Here come 2 simple functions to collect the day and month names in string lists:
December 26, 2016 Leave a comment
Every programmer loves working with dates and time, right? Whether or not you like it it is inevitable to show the dates in a format that the viewer understands. You should not show dates presented according to the US format in Japan and vice versa.
The DateTimeFormatInfo class includes a range of useful properties to localise date and time. The entry point to the DateTimeFormatInfo class is CultureInfo. E.g. if you’d like to format a date according to various cultures – Swedish, Hungarian and German – then you can do it as follows:
December 25, 2016 Leave a comment
Finding the the culture settings – the locale – of a thread is straightforward in .NET:
CultureInfo cultureInfo = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;
We extract the current culture from the current thread. The CultureInfo class holds a number of properties to extract information from it. Examples:
string cultureName = cultureInfo.Name; string cultureDisplayName = cultureInfo.DisplayName; string nativeName = cultureInfo.NativeName; string englishName = cultureInfo.EnglishName; string cultureAbbreviation = cultureInfo.TwoLetterISOLanguageName;
As my computer is set to run with Swedish settings I got the following values from top to bottom:
October 11, 2016 Leave a comment
It’s important to be aware of the cultural settings in a globalised application when comparing strings. The CompareInfo class and the CompareOptions enumeration provide a useful way to compare strings based on specific cultures.
One way to get hold of the CompareInfo class belonging to a specific culture is through the CultureInfo class:
CultureInfo swedishCulture = new CultureInfo("sv-SE");
CompareInfo swedishCompareInfo = swedishCulture.CompareInfo;
CultureInfo hungarianCulture = new CultureInfo("hu-HU");
CompareInfo hungarianCompareInfo = hungarianCulture.CompareInfo;
CultureInfo germanCulture = new CultureInfo("de-DE");
CompareInfo germanCompareInfo = germanCulture.CompareInfo;
The CompareInfo object has a Compare method which returns 0 if the strings are equal, -1 if the first string is less than the second and 1 if the opposite is the case. The following comparison of two German strings returns -1 as by default the comparison is case-sensitive:
int comparison = germanCompareInfo.Compare("mädchen", "Mädchen");
This is where the CompareOptions enumeration proves useful. Here are the possible values:
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October 21, 2015 1 Comment
The CultureInfo class helps you get the names of days and months in various languages that belong to the selected culture.
Here come 2 simple functions to collect the day and month names in string lists:
September 16, 2014 Leave a comment
The CultureInfo class has a static method to retrieve the supported locales on the user’s machine:
CultureInfo[] supportedCultures = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures);
The GetCultures method accepts a CultureTypes enumeration:
So in case you’d like to find all specific cultures and their names you can write as follows:
CultureInfo[] supportedCultures = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.SpecificCultures);
List<CultureInfo> ordered = supportedCultures.OrderBy(c => c.Name).ToList();
foreach (CultureInfo ci in ordered)
{
Console.WriteLine(string.Concat(ci.Name, ": ", ci.EnglishName));
}
However, if you’re only interested in the supported languages then the following will do:
CultureInfo[] supportedCultures = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.NeutralCultures);
List<CultureInfo> ordered = supportedCultures.OrderBy(c => c.Name).ToList();
foreach (CultureInfo ci in ordered)
{
Console.WriteLine(string.Concat(ci.Name, ": ", ci.EnglishName));
}
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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:
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:
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