CultureTypes Enumeration
Defines the types of culture lists that can be retrieved using the CultureInfo.GetCultures method.
This enumeration has a FlagsAttribute attribute that allows a bitwise combination of its member values.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
| Member name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| AllCultures | All cultures that ship with the .NET Framework, including neutral and specific cultures, cultures installed in the Windows operating system, and custom cultures created by the user. CultureTypes.AllCultures is a composite field that includes the CultureTypes.NeutralCultures, CultureTypes.SpecificCultures, and CultureTypes.InstalledWin32Cultures values. | |
| FrameworkCultures | Obsolete. This member is deprecated; using this value with CultureInfo.GetCultures returns neutral and specific cultures shipped with the .NET Framework 2.0. | |
| InstalledWin32Cultures | All cultures that are installed in the Windows operating system. Note that not all cultures supported by the .NET Framework are installed in the operating system. | |
| NeutralCultures | Cultures that are associated with a language but are not specific to a country/region. The names of .NET Framework cultures consist of the lowercase two-letter code derived from ISO 639-1. For example: "en" (English) is a neutral culture. | |
| ReplacementCultures | Custom cultures created by the user that replace cultures shipped with the .NET Framework. | |
| SpecificCultures | Cultures that are specific to a country/region. The names of these cultures follow RFC 4646 (Windows Vista and later). The format is "<languagecode2>-<country/regioncode2>", where <languagecode2> is a lowercase two-letter code derived from ISO 639-1 and <country/regioncode2> is an uppercase two-letter code derived from ISO 3166. For example, "en-US" for English (United States) is a specific culture. | |
| UserCustomCulture | Custom cultures created by the user. | |
| WindowsOnlyCultures | Obsolete. This member is deprecated. If it is used as an argument to the CultureInfo.GetCultures method, the method returns an empty array. |
These culture type values are returned by the CultureInfo.CultureTypes property, and also serve as a filter that limits the cultures returned by the CultureInfo.GetCultures method. For more information on cultures, see CultureInfo.
Generally, your application should enumerate all cultures, using the AllCultures value. This allows enumeration of custom cultures, as well as the other culture types.
Note that the FrameworkCultures and WindowsOnlyCultures members have been deprecated.
The following example demonstrates the CultureTypes enumeration and the CultureTypes property.
' This example demonstrates the CultureTypes enumeration ' and the CultureInfo.CultureTypes property. Imports System Imports System.Globalization Module Module1 Public Sub Main() ' Create a table of most culture types. Dim mostCultureTypes() As CultureTypes = { _ CultureTypes.NeutralCultures, _ CultureTypes.SpecificCultures, _ CultureTypes.InstalledWin32Cultures, _ CultureTypes.UserCustomCulture, _ CultureTypes.ReplacementCultures, _ CultureTypes.FrameworkCultures, _ CultureTypes.WindowsOnlyCultures} Dim allCultures() As CultureInfo Dim combo As CultureTypes ' Get and enumerate all cultures. allCultures = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures) Dim ci As CultureInfo For Each ci In allCultures ' Display the name of each culture. Console.WriteLine("Culture: {0}", ci.Name) ' Get the culture types of each culture. combo = ci.CultureTypes ' Display the name of each culture type flag that is set. Console.Write(" ") Dim ct As CultureTypes For Each ct In mostCultureTypes If 0 <> (ct And combo) Then Console.Write("{0} ", ct) End If Next ct Console.WriteLine() Next ci End Sub 'Main End Module 'The following is a portion of the results produced by this code example. '. '. '. 'Culture: tg ' NeutralCultures InstalledWin32Cultures 'Culture: ta ' NeutralCultures InstalledWin32Cultures FrameworkCultures 'Culture: te ' NeutralCultures InstalledWin32Cultures FrameworkCultures 'Culture: syr ' NeutralCultures InstalledWin32Cultures FrameworkCultures 'Culture: tg-Cyrl-TJ ' SpecificCultures InstalledWin32Cultures 'Culture: ta-IN ' SpecificCultures InstalledWin32Cultures FrameworkCultures 'Culture: te-IN ' SpecificCultures InstalledWin32Cultures FrameworkCultures 'Culture: syr-SY ' SpecificCultures InstalledWin32Cultures FrameworkCultures 'Culture: tg-Cyrl ' NeutralCultures InstalledWin32Cultures '. '. '.
The following example displays several properties of the neutral cultures.
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