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System.Globalization.CultureInfo Class

Description

For the purposes of the CultureInfo class, International cutltures are defined by their language and their location. The purpose of this class is to encapsulate the information for a particular culture, and allow it to be used for date, number and string handling.

For example, the Hebrew calendar has between 353 and 385 days in a year.

Each culture is identified in one of two ways :

1. By language and location string

The syntax is : LanguageCode[-Country/Region]

For example, en represents general English whilst en-GB represents English for Great Britain.

2. By identification number

Each combination of language and region/country is designated by a unique identification number. For example :

en	= 0x0009
en-US	= 0x0409
en-GB	= 0x0809

A CultureInfo object may be constructed by specifying either the string or identification values. Additionally, you may specify whether user-selected culture settings are used - (this is beyond the scope of Delphi Basics).

Refer to the MSDN link to CultureInfo for more details and a list of language/region/country values and identifiers.

Syntax

Constructor Create (	Culture : String );
Constructor Create (	CultureId : Integer );
Constructor Create (	Culture : String; UseUserOverride : Boolean );
Constructor Create (	CultureId : Integer; UseUserOverride : Boolean );

Methods

	GetCultures	Get a list of cultures of a specified category
	ToString	Displays the CultureInfo as a string

Properties

Calendar	Calendar	Returns a System.Calendar object aligned to this culture
CompareInfo	CompareInfo	Gets the CompareInfo that defines how to compare strings for the culture.
CurrentCulture	CultureInfo	Gets the CultureInfo that represents the culture used by the current thread.
CurrentUICulture	CultureInfo	Gets the CultureInfo that represents the current culture used by the Resource Manager to look up culture-specific resources at run time.
DateTimeFormat	DateTimeFormatInfo	Gets or sets a DateTimeFormatInfo that defines the culturally appropriate format of displaying dates and times.
DisplayName	String	Gets the culture name in the format "languagefull (country/regionfull)" in the language of the localized version of .NET Framework.
EnglishName	String	Gets the culture name in the format "languagefull (country/regionfull)" in English.
InstalledUICulture	CutureInfo	Gets the CultureInfo that represents the culture installed with the operating system.
InvariantCulture	CultureInfo	Gets the CultureInfo that is culture-independent (invariant).
IsNeutralCulture	Boolean	Gets a value indicating whether the current CultureInfo represents a neutral culture.
IsReadOnly	Boolean	Gets a value indicating whether the current CultureInfo is read-only.
LCID	Integer	Gets the culture identifier for the current CultureInfo.
Name	String	Gets the culture name in the format "languagecode2-country/regioncode2".
NativeName	String	Gets the culture name in the format "languagefull (country/regionfull)" in the language that the culture is set to display.
NumberFormat	NumberFormatInfo	Gets or sets a NumberFormatInfo that defines the culturally appropriate format of displaying numbers, currency, and percentage.
OptionalCalendars	Array of Calendar	Gets the list of calendars that can be used by the culture.
Parent	CultureInfo	Gets the CultureInfo that represents the parent culture of the current CultureInfo.
TextInfo	TextInfo	Gets the TextInfo that defines the writing system associated with the culture.
ThreeLetterISOLanguageName	String	Gets the ISO 639-2 three-letter code for the language of the current CultureInfo.
ThreeLetterWindowsLanguageName	String	Gets the three-letter code for the language as defined in the Windows API.
TwoLetterISOLanguageName	String	Gets the ISO 639-1 two-letter code for the language of the current CultureInfo.
UseUserOverride	Boolean	Gets a value indicating whether the current CultureInfo uses the user-selected culture settings.

Delphi Basics links

System.Globalization.Calendar

Microsoft MSDN links

System.Globalization
System.Globalization.CultureInfo