Setting UICulture to auto

Question

User1334482106 posted

Hi

I want to set the UICulture to auto.  I know that I can do this in the individual page or I can set this globally in the web.config file.

However, my web pages all inherit from a base page (of which I have several) and I want to set this value in one of these base pages so that if affects every page that inherits from this base page, but no others. 

Is this possible?  If so...how?

Thanks

Griff

Answer 1

User-1199946673 posted

You need to override the InitializeCulture method in the base page:

 

Answer 2

User1334482106 posted

Hi hans_v

Thanks - I'd worked out that this should be set in the InitializeCulture, what I wasn't sure of was how to actually set it to AUTO.

What I'm doing is this (defensive coding removed for clarity):

        protected override void InitializeCulture()
        {
            // Load the language from the browser
            string uiLang = this.Page.Request.Headers["Accept-Language"];

            // Set the UI culture
            System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo(uiLang.Split(",".ToCharArray())[0]);

            //Base
            base.InitializeCulture();
        }

Griff