Hindi or Marathi Culture

Question

User129936097 posted

Hello Friends,

I am developing an application in which there are many langauge options. Depending on selection futhur pages will be displayed. For English,Dutch,French, I have used prescribed culture information. But what about Hindi/Marathi or any Indian language whose culture is not prescibed in .NET culture list ?

Also how many cultures supported by .NET 2.0 framework? Can anybody give the list please.

Also tell me which culture sholud i used for Hindi / Marathi ?

Thank You,

Pranav Unde.

Answer 1

User1643008609 posted

Hi Friend,

Supported culture is OS dependent. Check here for default language support per OS.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb896001.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2282411/what-cultures-are-supported-by-the-cultureinfo-class-in-net-3-5

Check following URL's for creating Hindi or Marathi culture.

http://www.guysmithferrier.com/post/2006/07/Creating-Custom-Cultures-in-the-NET-Framework-20-MSDN-Webcast-Available-For-Download.aspx

http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/030304-1.aspx#postadlink

Answer 2

User-242433875 posted

The language codes for the languages are given below.

Marathi - mr-IN
Hindi - hi-IN

Also, in order to implement all these languages programatically, you can use the code given below.

Protected Overrides Sub InitializeCulture()
    System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("hi-IN")
    System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New CultureInfo("hi-IN")
End Sub