Hi all; I'm still trying to write an application that will allow the
user to switch between cultures at runtime. It is mostly working, but
I have one issue that I am running into a wall on, and was hoping
someone here could help.

I have a drop-down menu that gets populated dynamically with the
cultures available to the application (big thanks to Michael Kaplan for
help on that!). I want these names to be localized as the culture
changes; when I say names I don't mean the universal ones (en-US etc.),
I mean the user-friendly ones ("English (United States)"...).

So, when I choose French as the language, I want all the available
culture names to appear in French. Then when I choose German I'd like
them to be in German. And so on. I thought that
CultureInfo.DisplayName was the way to go, but this actually only seems
to be localized for the culture installed on the user's machine, not
the current UI culture. And CultureInfo.NativeName is the name if the
culture in its native langauge; not what I want either.

So I am at a loss as to where to get this info, and have found nothing
in MSDN to help. I am worried that this info is not actually installed
with .NET; perhaps only the system's native language translations are
included.

Any ideas or hints?

Thanks,

Carl

own language. French => Français, German => Deutsch, Spanish => Español, etc.
If I know English and French, but a previous user left the UI set to
Japanese, it is quite tough to change it to something I know.
To see how it is, go here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...FamilyID=0db2e
8f9-79c4-4625-a07a-0cc1b341be7c
That is the Telugu Windows XP LIP, and the second combo-box is the list of
languages. Find your way out :-)
Compare it with the UI language selection in Windows itself (where each
language keeps it's original name). Much better :-)

It is also easyer to implement :-)


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See also

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archiv...05/499949.aspx

though there is support for the argument of using the native name here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archiv...08/501449.aspx

It is much harder for fonts! Though admittedly it was fun! :-)

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archiv...13/530814.aspx

:-)


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Globalization Infrastructure, Fonts, and Tools
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"Mihai N." <nmihai_year_2000 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

Excellent point regarding culture names being in their native
languages. Sometimes you get so wrapped up in a problem that it's
difficult to step back and look at it from a different angle.

Thanks!

Carl