Get current language in CultureInfo

Question

How to identify the operating system's language using CultureInfo? E.g. if the language in Windows is set to French, I need to identify French and load the fr resource files data.

Answer 1

I think something like this would give you the current CultureInfo:

CultureInfo currentCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;

Is that what you're looking for?

Answer 2

This is what i used:

var culture = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture;

and it's working :)

Answer 3

Current system language is retrieved using :

  CultureInfo.InstalledUICulture

"Gets the CultureInfo that represents the culture installed with the operating system."

InstalledUICulture

To set it as default language for thread use :

   System.Globalization.CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentCulture=CultureInfo.InstalledUICulture;

Answer 4

I tried {CultureInfo currentCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;} but it didn`t work for me, since my UI culture was different from my number/currency culture. So I suggest you to use:

CultureInfo currentCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture;

This will give you the culture your UI is (texts on windows, message boxes, etc).

Answer 5

To get the 2 chars ISO 639-1 language identifier use:

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture.TwoLetterISOLanguageName;