CultureInfo::IsNeutralCulture Property
Gets a value indicating whether the current CultureInfo represents a neutral culture.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Property Value
Type: System::Booleantrue if the current CultureInfo represents a neutral culture; otherwise, false.
A neutral culture is a culture that is associated with a language but not with a country or region. It differs from a specific culture, which is a culture that is associated with both a language and a country or region. For example, fr is the name for the neutral French culture, while fr-FR is the name for the French culture in France.
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.
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The example displays the older zh-CHS and zh-CHT culture names 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. |
using namespace System; using namespace System::Globalization; int main() { // Lists the cultures that use the Chinese language and determines if each is a neutral culture. System::Collections::IEnumerator^ enum0 = CultureInfo::GetCultures( CultureTypes::AllCultures )->GetEnumerator(); while ( enum0->MoveNext() ) { CultureInfo^ ci = safe_cast<CultureInfo^>(enum0->Current); if ( ci->TwoLetterISOLanguageName->Equals( "zh" ) ) { Console::Write( "{0,-7} {1,-40}", ci->Name, ci->EnglishName ); if ( ci->IsNeutralCulture ) { Console::WriteLine( ": neutral" ); } else { Console::WriteLine( ": specific" ); } } } } /* This code produces the following output. zh-Hans Chinese (Simplified) : neutral zh-TW Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) : specific zh-CN Chinese (Simplified, PRC) : specific zh-HK Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong S.A.R.) : specific zh-SG Chinese (Simplified, Singapore) : specific zh-MO Chinese (Traditional, Macao S.A.R.) : specific zh Chinese : neutral zh-Hant Chinese (Traditional) : neutral zh-CHS Chinese (Simplified) Legacy : neutral zh-CHT Chinese (Traditional) Legacy : neutral */
Available since 8
.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
Portable Class Library
Supported in: portable .NET platforms
Silverlight
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0
Windows Phone
Available since 8.1
