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Culture Names used by other cultures

Most of probably know that we can call against the CultureInfo's static GetCultures method to retrieve a collection of Cultures. Each culture will have it's own name - to take an example, "English/United States"...

My question is, is it possible to see how other cultures name that specific culture? The French will have a one name for it, the Germans another and so on and so forth...

What I'm therefore looking to do is something like this:

public string GetNameUsingCulture(CultureInfo selectedCulture, CultureInfo selectedLanguageCulture)
{
  ...
  ...
}
Solution

  • No.

    CultureInfo has three "displays":

    • DisplayName: based on the .NET "language" installed (in Italian on my pc)
    • NativeName: localized in the language of the Culture (so for the culture fr it would be in french)
    • EnglishName: always in english

    So on my pc (with Italian .NET), for new CultureInfo("fr") I have

    • DisplaName: Francese
    • NativeName: français
    • EnglishName: French