Try the Currency Format Specifier (“C”). It automatically takes the current UI culture into account and displays currency values accordingly. You can use it with either String.Format or the overloaded ToString method for a numeric type. For example: decimal value = 12345.6789M; // Be sure to use Decimal for money values. Do not use IEEE-754 … Read more
I think something like this would give you the current CultureInfo: CultureInfo currentCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture; Is that what you’re looking for?
I think the best you can do in this case is to take their input and then show them what you think they meant. If they disagree, show them the format you’re expecting and get them to enter it again.
I would try to give a bit more insightful answer than this one. CurrentCulture should be used for formatting. That is, Numbers, Currencies, Percentages, Dates and Times should always be formatted with this culture before displaying them to user. Few examples here: const string CURRENCY_FORMAT = “c”; const string PERCENTAGE_FORMAT = “p”; DateTime now = … Read more
Here’s an article from the W3C: Localization vs. Internationalization The short answer from them seems to be: Localization refers to the adaptation of a product, application or document content to meet the language, cultural and other requirements of a specific target market (a “locale”). Internationalization is the design and development of a product, application or … Read more
Skimming through Wikipedia’s Postal Codes page, 32 characters should be more than enough. I would say even 16 characters is good.
You can also take a look here ASP.NET MVC 2 Localization complete guide and ASP.NET MVC 2 Model Validation With Localization these entires will help you if you working with ASP.NET MVC 2.
As far as I know, there’s a good library called localeplanet for Localization and Internationalization in JavaScript. Furthermore, I think it’s native and has no dependencies to other libraries (e.g. jQuery) Here’s the website of library: http://www.localeplanet.com/ Also look at this article by Mozilla, you can find very good method and algorithms for client-side translation: … Read more
The invariant culture is a special culture which is useful because it will not change. The current culture can change from one user to another, or even from one run to another, so you can’t rely on it staying the same. Being able to use the same culture each time is very important in several … Read more
You can set it on the command line via JVM parameters: java -Duser.country=CA -Duser.language=fr … com.x.Main For further information look at Internationalization: Understanding Locale in the Java Platform – Using Locale