CultureInfo.GetCultures Method (CultureTypes)
Gets the list of supported cultures filtered by the specified CultureTypes parameter.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Parameters
- types
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Type:
System.Globalization.CultureTypes
A bitwise combination of the enumeration values that filter the cultures to retrieve.
Return Value
Type: System.Globalization.CultureInfo()An array that contains the cultures specified by the types parameter. The array of cultures is unsorted.
| Exception | Condition |
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| ArgumentOutOfRangeException | types specifies an invalid combination of CultureTypes values. |
The GetCultures method is most commonly called with the types parameter set to the following values:
SpecificCultures, which returns all specific cultures.
NeutralCultures, which returns all neutral cultures and the invariant culture.
AllCultures, which returns all neutral and specific cultures, cultures installed in the Windows system, and custom cultures created by the user.
UserCustomCulture, which returns all custom cultures, such as those registered by the CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder class. In versions of Windows before Windows 10, the UserCustomCulture value applies to all user-defined custom cultures. Starting with Windows 10, it applies to system cultures that lack complete cultural data and that do not have a unique local identifier, as indicated by the LCID property value. As a result, code such as the following will return different results when run on Windows 10 and on an earlier version of Windows.
Imports System.Globalization Module Example Sub Main() Dim cultures() As CultureInfo = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.UserCustomCulture Or CultureTypes.SpecificCultures) Dim ctr As Integer = 0 For Each culture In cultures If (culture.CultureTypes And CultureTypes.UserCustomCulture) = CultureTypes.UserCustomCulture Then ctr += 1 End If Next Console.WriteLine("Number of Specific Custom Cultures: {0}", ctr) End Sub End Module ' If run under Windows 8, the example displays output like the following: ' Number of Specific Custom Cultures: 6 ' If run under Windows 10, the example displays output like the following: ' Number of Specific Custom Cultures: 279
The following code example displays several properties of the neutral cultures.
Note |
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The example displays the zh-CHS and zh-CHT cultures with the 0x0004 and 0x7C04 culture identifiers, respectively. However, your Windows Vista applications should use the zh-Hans name instead of zh-CHS and the zh-Hant name instead of zh-CHT. The zh-Hans and zh-Hant names represent the current standard, and should be used unless you have a reason for using the older names. |
Imports System Imports System.Globalization Module Module1 Public Sub Main() ' Displays several properties of the neutral cultures. Console.WriteLine("CULTURE ISO ISO WIN DISPLAYNAME ENGLISHNAME") Dim ci As CultureInfo For Each ci In CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.NeutralCultures) Console.Write("{0,-7}", ci.Name) Console.Write(" {0,-3}", ci.TwoLetterISOLanguageName) Console.Write(" {0,-3}", ci.ThreeLetterISOLanguageName) Console.Write(" {0,-3}", ci.ThreeLetterWindowsLanguageName) Console.Write(" {0,-40}", ci.DisplayName) Console.WriteLine(" {0,-40}", ci.EnglishName) Next ci End Sub 'Main 'This code produces the following output. This output has been cropped for brevity. ' 'CULTURE ISO ISO WIN DISPLAYNAME ENGLISHNAME 'ar ar ara ARA Arabic Arabic 'bg bg bul BGR Bulgarian Bulgarian 'ca ca cat CAT Catalan Catalan 'zh-Hans zh zho CHS Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Simplified) 'cs cs ces CSY Czech Czech 'da da dan DAN Danish Danish 'de de deu DEU German German 'el el ell ELL Greek Greek 'en en eng ENU English English 'es es spa ESP Spanish Spanish 'fi fi fin FIN Finnish Finnish 'zh zh zho CHS Chinese Chinese 'zh-Hant zh zho CHT Chinese (Traditional) Chinese (Traditional) 'zh-CHS zh zho CHS Chinese (Simplified) Legacy Chinese (Simplified) Legacy 'zh-CHT zh zho CHT Chinese (Traditional) Legacy Chinese (Traditional) Legacy End Module
Available since 1.1
