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Internationalize Your ASP.NET Applications (Part 2 of 3)
See how to use culture settings to localize images, database content, numbers, currencies, and dates in your ASP.NET applications.
by Ollie Cornes
October 21, 2002
In this article you'll examine the features that ASP.NET provides to help you build fully localized web applications. In particular you'll see how .NET manages culture information, and how you localize different types of information—including images, content from a database, text such as copyright messages, and small pieces of information like numbers, currencies and dates. This article will give you a good grounding in the more interesting localization features of the platform.
Specifying Cultures
How do you specify a culture unambiguously? When you say "French," or "UK English" or "US English," can you be sure you're talking about the same language/culture as someone else? Thankfully there is an Internet standard called RFC 1766 that specifies codes for cultures. Here are some examples:
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