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mohammad abukhamseh
mohammad abukhamseh

Reputation: 31

force .NET windows app. to display numbers in english shape

I am building a culture specific .NET windows application and recently I faced a problem with the number shape which changed according to the OS culture. for example if the OS culture is English (United States) and run the application, the displayed numbers will be in english shape (the usual one we used to), but if I changed the windows culture to Arabic-SaudiArabia the numbers will be shown in different shape.

I want to force this application to display numbers in the english shape only whatever the culture is.

I searched the internet and tired many solutions which try to change the application Culture and UICulture without any result.

regards,

Upvotes: 2

Views: 600

Answers (4)

Behnam Sarkheil
Behnam Sarkheil

Reputation: 46

use below code in behind code: 

CultureInfo ci = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.Name);
        ci.NumberFormat.DigitSubstitution = DigitShapes.None;
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = ci;

Upvotes: 1

Mahmoud A. elgendy
Mahmoud A. elgendy

Reputation: 1

Change it in registry directly.
Like that for English shape:

Microsoft.Win32.Registry.SetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International", "sNativeDigits", "0123456789")

For Arabic shape:

Microsoft.Win32.Registry.SetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International", "sNativeDigits", "٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩")
Microsoft.Win32.Registry.SetValue("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International", "NumShape", "2")

Upvotes: 0

Simon MᶜKenzie
Simon MᶜKenzie

Reputation: 8664

You can specify the culture to use when doing your string conversion, e.g:

Dim i As Integer = 5
Dim s As String = i.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)

Upvotes: 1

ajay_whiz
ajay_whiz

Reputation: 17931

Try

culture.NumberFormat.DigitSubstitution=System.Globalization.DigitShapes.None;

Upvotes: 0

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