I am working on a .net 4.5 application that needs to be mult lingual supporting multi cultures etc.
The following is sample list of Countries/Languages
- Russia / Russian
- Belgium / French
- Belgium / Dutch
For all the above, there is a CultureInfo object that can be created based upon the above culture names
When the user enters the site, I set Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture and Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture to the culture created with the above names eg.
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("nl-BE", false)
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("nl-BE", false)
All the above names are valid culture names.
No however I need to added another culture name, language of English in Russia. But the problem is the code en-RU is not valid so when I create new CultureInfo("en-RU", false) I get a CultureNotFoundException as en-RU is not valid.
With this culture, I want the formatting etc of Russia around numbers, dates etc, but I want the language on the site to be English. Is it possbile to create custom CultureInfo objects for invalid culture names with the behaviour of the country (Russia)?
Is it possbile to create custom CultureInfo objects for invalid culture name
Yes.
Make use of CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder to help create the custom CultureInfo. (NB. once you have code to create a culture, the settings to do this can be saved to XML and then loaded, eg. from a resource, which should need less code at runtime.)
You may have to mix and mix and match - have a culture object for English which you use for English text but a culture object of ru-Ru (Russian) for numeric formatting.
Or even better create a custom culture combining the two
Create custom culture in ASP.NET
You should use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture Property
The invariant culture is culture-insensitive; it is associated with
the English language but not with any country/region. You specify the
invariant culture by name by using an empty string ("") in the call to
a CultureInfo instantiation method. CultureInfo.InvariantCulture also
retrieves an instance of the invariant culture. It can be used in
almost any method in the System.Globalization namespace that requires
a culture. The objects returned by properties such as CompareInfo,
DateTimeFormat, and NumberFormat also reflect the string comparison
and formatting conventions of the invariant culture.
CultureInfo.InvariantCulture Property
This is other option Custom Global Application Culture
