Is there a built-in list of culture name constants?

Question

So I can't for example set the default to english, like so

CultureInfo MyCulture =  CultureInfo.ENGLISH;

or

CultureInfo MyCulture =  CultureInfo.getCultureInfo(CulureInfo.Eng);

I have to introduce a string dependency, using a list I found on the internet (or create my own enum) :

CultureInfo MyCulture =  CultureInfo.getCultureInfo("en-AU");

So is there already an enum or other kind of list of all available CultureInfos?

Whats your question? There doesn't really need to be a built in list IMO, unless you wish to give the user the option to change it — Sayse, Jun 18 '14 at 10:34
duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5726905/why-isnt-there-a-culture-enum — Wouter, Jun 18 '14 at 10:36
As far as I know there is no such enumeration, but it would be very kind of you to create such a class and post it here. — Matas Vaitkevicius, Jun 18 '14 at 10:37
You should use the magic constant `"en-AU"`. However you can search the installed cultures, for example (using Linq): `var yourCulture = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.SpecificCultures).First(c => c.DisplayName.Contains("Australia"));`. — Jeppe Stig Nielsen, Jun 18 '14 at 10:40
The problem is that every computer has a different list of installed cultures. — Tim Schmelter, Jun 18 '14 at 10:40
@TimSchmelter ok, I want a list of iso languages in c#. Java has locale, which is iso compatible — NimChimpsky, Jun 18 '14 at 10:41
@NimChimpsky Do you want `CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.SpecificCultures).Select(c=>c.Name)`? Or some perhaps with another type like `AllCultures` or `NeutralCultures`? — CodesInChaos, Jun 18 '14 at 10:44

Antonio Pelleriti · Answer 1 · 2014-06-18T11:02:24.733

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You can obtain iso languages and region names, using System.Globalization classes:

System.Globalization.CultureInfo[] cinfo = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultures(System.Globalization.CultureTypes.AllCultures & ~System.Globalization.CultureTypes.NeutralCultures);
System.Globalization.RegionInfo ri = null;
foreach (System.Globalization.CultureInfo cul in cinfo)
{   
    try
    {
        ri = new System.Globalization.RegionInfo(cul.Name);
        Console.WriteLine(cul.TwoLetterISOLanguageName+"-"+ri.TwoLetterISORegionName);
    }
    catch(ArgumentException)
    {
        continue;
    }
}

edited Jun 18 '14 at 11:02

answered Jun 18 '14 at 10:48

Antonio Pelleriti

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Seeing a "catch all" always makes me cringe, even in sample code (that gets copy and pasted into prod code much too often, BTW). Please consider to only catch `ArgumentException` as documented by MSDN. – Christian.K Jun 18 '14 at 10:56
Why do you want to try to create the `RegionInfo` instance? You already have the format `[languagecode]-[CountryCode]` in your `cul.Name` or `cul.ToString()`, so just write that out. Note: You explicitly took away the neutral cultures which do not have the country-code part. – Jeppe Stig Nielsen Jun 18 '14 at 11:51

Is there a built-in list of culture name constants?

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