I have an localizeable c# application.
There is a file Localization.resx and a file Localization.de.resx.
The Localization.resx contains the invariant language - it is english.
The user should be able to select his preferred language. I found the first answer of this question Programmatic way to get all the available languages (in satellite assemblies) to determine which cultures are available. I see that there is de and InvariantCulture available.
But I can't offer InvariantCulture. An user wont know what this is. Instead I should offer en.
I can't rename Localization.resx to Localization.en.resx, since this file is needed to create the Class holding the resources.
I could copy Localization.resx to Localization.en.resx, but then I would always have to keep those files consistent and also need to remove InvariantCulture from the available cultures.
I could write a converter that visualizes the the InvariantCulture as en. But this, I think, is an ugly hack.
Any help please?
You can use the NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute assembly attribute to set the neutral language.
[assembly: NeutralResourcesLanguageAttribute("en-US", UltimateResourceFallbackLocation.Satellite)]
This also makes it "fallback" to other satellites if a key is not found in one resource (if you ask for a key which is not defined in resource.en-US.resx, it'll search in resource.en.resx and finally in resource.resx)
I'm not sure how you are listing the language names, but in case this still gives InvariantCulture, you could have an empty Localization.en.resx, and with this method it'll find all missing resources in Localization.resx, so no need to have them in sync.