CultureInfo.IsNeutralCulture Property
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
A neutral culture is a culture that is associated with a language but not with a country/region. A specific culture is a culture that is associated with a language and a country/region. For example, "fr" is a neutral culture and "fr-FR" is a specific culture. Note that "zh-CHS" (Simplified Chinese) and "zh-CHT" (Traditional Chinese) are neutral cultures.
If this property returns false, the culture is either a specific culture or the invariant culture.
The following code example determines which cultures using the Chinese language are neutral cultures.
using System; using System.Globalization; public class SamplesCultureInfo { public static void Main() { // Lists the cultures that use the Chinese language and determines if each is a neutral culture. foreach ( CultureInfo ci in CultureInfo.GetCultures( CultureTypes.AllCultures ) ) { if ( ci.TwoLetterISOLanguageName == "zh" ) { Console.Write( "{0,-6} {1,-40}", ci.Name, ci.EnglishName ); if ( ci.IsNeutralCulture ) { Console.WriteLine( ": neutral" ); } else { Console.WriteLine( ": specific" ); } } } } } /* This code produces the following output. zh-CHS Chinese (Simplified) : neutral zh-TW Chinese (Taiwan) : specific zh-CN Chinese (People's Republic of China) : specific zh-HK Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.) : specific zh-SG Chinese (Singapore) : specific zh-MO Chinese (Macao S.A.R.) : specific zh-CHT Chinese (Traditional) : neutral */
import System.* ;
import System.Globalization.* ;
public class SamplesCultureInfo
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// Lists the cultures that use the Chinese language and determines if
// each is a neutral culture.
for(int iCtr=0;
iCtr < (CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures).length);
iCtr++) {
CultureInfo ci =
CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures)[iCtr];
if (ci.get_TwoLetterISOLanguageName().equalsIgnoreCase("zh")) {
Console.Write("{0,-6} {1,-40}", ci.get_Name(),
ci.get_EnglishName());
if (ci.get_IsNeutralCulture()) {
Console.WriteLine(": neutral");
}
else {
Console.WriteLine(": specific");
}
}
}
} //main
} //SamplesCultureInfo
/*
This code produces the following output.
zh-CHS Chinese (Simplified) : neutral
zh-TW Chinese (Taiwan) : specific
zh-CN Chinese (People's Republic of China) : specific
zh-HK Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.) : specific
zh-SG Chinese (Singapore) : specific
zh-MO Chinese (Macau S.A.R.) : specific
zh-CHT Chinese (Traditional) : neutral
*/
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