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Mel
Mel

Reputation: 3128

WPF: Customized regional settings

I just found out today that WPF will ignore CultureInfo.CurrentCulture and always use en-US. I have also found a wonderful answer here. Everything worked fine until one of the users customized the regional settings to change the currency symbol (here in the Philippines you could write Php and P and most people prefer P, the default setting is Php). The application doesn't seem to pick this up. Is there any way around this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1811

Answers (3)

Sphinxxx
Sphinxxx

Reputation: 13017

Yes, there is a way to make WPF use customized regional settings, but you need to force all bindings to use CultureInfo.CurrentCulture. See this post for examples.

Upvotes: 0

CiaraMulv
CiaraMulv

Reputation: 21

I recently had to check for the current country setup for my C# WPF application. I used CurrentCulture and not CurrentUICulture (which picked up EN-US for me too).

Also, I'm not sure this will help- but I found out I was testing this functionality in the wrong place.

To change the country of your app for testing go to: “Control Panel->Clock, Language, and Region” select the “Region and Language” button, a window will pop up, go to the format tab, change the country in the format listbox.

Once I did that CurrentCulture worked fine.

Upvotes: 2

Mel
Mel

Reputation: 3128

Well after a week's research of two people, I think there is currently no way of doing this using the Globalization classes.

CurrentUICulture and other related classes contain the default formats/settings for the selected Language but not the customized settings.

One way to do this is by reading the values straight from the registry key, HKCU\Control Panel\International.

Upvotes: 0

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