uiculture – Tarik Billa

CurrentCulture incorrectly defaulting to en-US in ASP.net

December 25, 2023 by Tarik

These are alternative places where you could search: I can’t find anywhere that’s settings the culture to ‘en-US’… but something is. Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.Name is outputting ‘en-US’ Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.NumberFormat.CurrencySymbol is outputting ‘$’ Try looking for the InitializeCulture method, this method is overridden in ASP.Net pages to set the Culture like: protected override void InitializeCulture() { var hidden = … Read more

What is the difference between Culture and UICulture?

December 9, 2022 by Tarik

Culture affects how culture-dependent data (dates, currencies, numbers and so on) is presented. Here are a few examples: var date = new DateTime(2000, 1, 2); var number = 12345.6789; Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(“de-DE”); Console.WriteLine(date); // 02.01.2000 00:00:00 Console.WriteLine(number.ToString(“C”)); // 12.345,68 € Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo(“fr-CA”); Console.WriteLine(date); // 2000-01-02 00:00:00 Console.WriteLine(number.ToString(“C”)); // 12 345,68 $ Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture … Read more