CultureInfo.Name Property
Gets the culture name in the format languagecode2-country/regioncode2.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.StringThe culture name in the format languagecode2-country/regioncode2. languagecode2 is a lowercase two-letter code derived from ISO 639-1. country/regioncode2 is derived from ISO 3166 and usually consists of two uppercase letters, or a BCP-47 language tag.
For a list of predefined culture names and identifiers that the Name property can return, see the National Language Support (NLS) API Reference at the Go Global Developer Center. In addition, starting with Windows 10, name can be any valid BCP-47 language tag. Note that culture names are subject to change, and that they also can reflect the names of custom cultures.
The CultureInfo.Name property follows the naming standards provided in the CultureInfo class topic. It returns the short form of the culture name that excludes any indication of an alternate sort order. For example, if you instantiate a CultureInfo object by using the string "de-DE_phoneb" to reflect an alternate sort order, the Name property returns "de-DE".
To get the full name of the culture, you should use the DisplayName, EnglishName, or NativeName property.
The following code example displays several properties of the 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. |
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 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
