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:
- AllCultures: show all cultures regardless of the type
- FrameworkCultures: show all specific and neutral cultures that ship with .NET
- InstalledWin32Cultures: all cultures installed on Windows
- NeutralCultures: all language-specific, i.e. neutral cultures where the region which determines the specific culture is omitted
- ReplacementCultures: custom cultures created by the user that replace an existing culture
- SpecificCultures: the most precise culture type where both the language and regions are denoted
- UserCustomCulture: custom cultures
- WindowsOnlyCultures: deprecated, yields an array with 0 elements in .NET 4+
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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