How to translate CultureInfo language names

c# cultureinfo
Yodah picture Yodah · Mar 12, 2010 · Viewed 14.8k times · Source

I know of three ways to get a full language name of a CultureInfo object.

CultureInfo.DisplayName   
CultureInfo.NativeName  
CultureInfo.EnglishName

DisplayName gives the name in the installed .net language.
NativeName gives the name in 'CultureInfos' language.
EnglishName gives the name in English (surprisingly...)

So for CultureInfo de-DE this gives (on an English .net installation)
German
Deutsch
German

Now my question: Is there a way to ask for the language name of de-DE in another language? E.g. I want the language name of de-DE in Dutch (which would be 'Duits').

Answer

Dead account picture Dead account · Mar 12, 2010

This functionality isn't built into the .NET Framework

Maybe look at Google Translate API

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