Questions tagged [regioninfo]
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Does .net have an inbuilt way of validating region names before creating a RegionInfo object?
My code looks like this:
var twoLetterCountryCode = *Get possibly invalid value from database*;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(twoLetterCountryCode) && twoLetterCountryCode.Length == 2)
{
try
{
var region = new…
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Culture is not supported (WPF)
Within a WPF App (.NET Framework 4.5.2) I use an IValueConverter to get the RegionInfo from a 2 letter region code:
public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture) {
if (value != null) { //
// we use…
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Why does RegionInfo.TwoLetterISORegionName return 3 chars for Caribbean?
Trying to generate currency type seed data for an application and iterating through the CultureInfo collection of System.Globalization. I kept getting truncation errors on my insert statements until I discovered that when Caribbean comes up (listed…
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Using CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder to register newer cultures to older Windows versions
tl;dr: Is it possible to define and register en-BS as a culture on Windows Server 2012 R2?
I'm trying to introduce international currency options to some software I'm working on. That process by itself has not been difficult. I use a culture code…
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RegionInfo serializing in ElasticSearch
It seems that the RegionInfo object has kinda been forgotten in terms of serialization. CultureInfo works great and is serialized to and from a string. When attempting to throw in a RegionInfo object, I get a mess of all the properties of RegionInfo…
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RegionInfo: DisplayName translated by CurrentUICulture
Is there a way to get RegionInfo translated by a custom CultureInfo?
I tried the following but it does not work:
/* Change culture of current thread to german*/
CultureInfo de = new CultureInfo("de");
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture =…
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RegionInfo all properties populated with ISO code in Blazor
any ideas why in Blazor when I try to get user country name from RegionInfo all properties have the ISO code assigned?
///User.Country = "DE"
RegionInfo region = new RegionInfo(User.Country);
_country = region.EnglishName;
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How can I get a CultureInfo or RegionInfo from United Nations M49 Country code in C#?
I want to create the ISO code from the UN M49 code which I receive from database. How can I do that in c#?
ex: Sweden's UN M49 code is 752. How can I convert it to something like Sweden or Iso code "sv"
I try to create CultureInfo and RegionInfo…
Quang Pho
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C# - Get ISO 639-2 three-letter code from language name and country name
The problem
I've got the following information:
Language name
Country
An example would be: English, United States
This information needs to be converted into an ISO 639-2 three-letter code.
It might be good to know that I'm using dotnet 6 with C#…
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RegionInfo and GeoId
I was thinking of using RegionInfo.TwoLetterISORegionName to as a database attribute from which to get information about a country. Until I saw RegionInfoGeoId, which seems more robust.
Which would you store to support internationalization? How…
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Get list of possible country codes from BCP-47 code using System.Globalization
I'm trying to guess which country a BCP-47 code belongs to. I'm aware that this would provide a list of multiple countries. Nevertheless, I would like to try.
Is that possible using any of the classes within System.Globalization?
Why I'm doing this:…
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Converting country names into thier own ThreeLetterISORegionName with RegionInfo (c# 2013 Winforms)
I’ve already written every country’s name in a ComboBox but now i want to get each country’s ThreeLetterISORegionName when i click the country’s name in the ComboBox and display it in a label, is that possible?
Thanks
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Getting CultureInfo from RegionInfo.TwoLetterISORegionName
In db I already have stored values with RegionInfo.TwoLetterISORegionName values. Atm I have values like 'be' for Belgium, 'no', 'gb', 'en' etc.
If I write:
var culture = new CultureInfo("be");
instead of Belgium, I get Belarus.
So I need a way to…
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Am I understanding Region Info correctly?
So I don't necessarily need geocoding permissions, I don't care what the users city or location is, I just want to get the users country, or even continent. I found this guy in Xamarin documentation
System.Globalization.RegionInfo
Which when I test…
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How to print Indian Currency symbol in pdf?
I can show the symbol in a messagebox, but it will not display in a PdfPCell. I want to use the currency symbol in a billing system.
RegionInfo myRg = new RegionInfo("IN");
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1);
PdfPCell n1 = new PdfPCell(new…
Chandni Darji
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