CultureInfo : display the language with its own culture

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The title may not be very clear but what I want to do is really simple: I want to display a list of culture by their names like this:

English for culture "en"
Deutsch for culture "de"
Français for culture "fr
Italiano for culture "it"
Español for culture "es"
etc...

what language are you coding in? how do you want to output the data on a webpage or csv? Have you tried any code yet? How far did you get, what error messages or issues did you come across? — Fuzzybear, Jul 04 '18 at 13:10
Consider CultureInfo.NativeName. Beware of displaying text in non-Latin alphabets. Rough on console apps, rough on users that can't read text in such an alphabet. — Hans Passant, Jul 04 '18 at 13:17

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 04 '18 at 13:13

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This will display the name in the required (native) language:

Console.WriteLine(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en").NativeName);
Console.WriteLine(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("de").NativeName);
Console.WriteLine(System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("fr").NativeName);

answered Jul 04 '18 at 13:13

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This is the right answer. NativeName display the culture in the culture language. DisplayName display the culture in the machine local culture – J.Loscos Jul 04 '18 at 13:17
Exactly! Thanks a lot – G.Dealmeida Jul 04 '18 at 13:22

vahdet · Answer 2 · 2018-07-04T13:17:15.870

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See CultureInfo.NativeName:

CultureInfo myCultureInfo = new CultureInfo("es", false);
Console.Write(myCultureInfo.NativeName);

EDIT: changed DisplayName method to NativeName as I realized the OP asked for it.

edited Jul 04 '18 at 13:17

answered Jul 04 '18 at 13:12

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DisplayName is in the current culture, what I was looking for is NativeName – G.Dealmeida Jul 04 '18 at 13:16

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 04 '18 at 13:13

The below little code snippet will get all the available culture and print it in tabular format. The output of the code is given below,

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

    {

        CultureInfo[] cinfo = CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures & ~CultureTypes.NeutralCultures);

        Response.Write("<table border=\"1\"><tr><th>Country Name</th><th>Language-Country code</th></tr>");

        foreach (CultureInfo cul in cinfo)

        {

            Response.Write("<tr>");

            Response.Write("<td>" + cul.DisplayName + " </td><td> " + cul.Name + "</td>");

            Response.Write("</tr>");

        }

        Response.Write("</table>");

    }

DisplayName is in the current culture, what I was looking for is NativeName — G.Dealmeida, Jul 04 '18 at 13:17

CultureInfo : display the language with its own culture

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