Calendar .. Arabic days names

Question

User-1230161102 posted

Hi

I am using the calendar control in one page of my web application. I am wondering how can I display the names of the days and months in Arabic language (e.g instead of Saturday, Sunday, ... display the corresponding arabic names)

Regards

Abd

Answer 1

User187056398 posted

You can set the culture of the page the Calendar is on:

<%@ Page Language="C#" Culture="ar-SA" 

Answer 2

User1414178881 posted

You need to override InitializeCulture method in your page like this:

    protected override void InitializeCulture()
    {
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("ar-JO");
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture
          ("ar-JO");
        base.InitializeCulture();
    }

Answer 3

User187056398 posted

If you need to do it programmatically, this may be simpler: 

    protected void Button1_Click1(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (RadioButtonList1.SelectedValue == "English")
            Page.Culture = "en-US";
        if (RadioButtonList1.SelectedValue == "Arab")
            Page.Culture = "ar-SA";        
    }

 

Answer 4

User-319574463 posted

In the common data project at http://commondata.codeplex.com there is a Calendar.aspx that allows the calender control to be manually switched to different locales, one of which is Arabic simply by switching the page locale as in:

      this.Culture = this.DdlLang.SelectedValue;
      this.UICulture = this.DdlLang.SelectedValue;
      this.InitializeCulture();

When set to Arabic the pages looks like:

< ديسمبر 2009 >
السبت	الاحد	الاثنين	الثلاثاء	الاربعاء	الخميس	الجمعة
28	29	30	1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31	1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8