Top "Globalization" questions

The process of making an application suitable for use for a world-wide audience, regardless of culture.

How can I detect the encoding/codepage of a text file

In our application, we receive text files (.txt, .csv, etc.) from diverse sources. When reading, these files sometimes contain garbage, …

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How do I set the default locale in the JVM?

I want to set the default Locale for my JVM to fr_CA. What are the possible options to do …

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String format currency

I have this line @String.Format("{0:C}", @price) in my razor view. I want it to display a dollar sign …

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Currency format for display

Is there a way to format the correct currency representation for a country? Example UK -£127.54 Netherlands € 127,54- USA $127.54 etc.. …

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Best practice for localization and globalization of strings and labels

I'm a member of a team with more than 20 developers. Each developer works on a separate module (something near 10 modules). …

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Regular expression for validating names and surnames?

Although this seems like a trivial question, I am quite sure it is not :) I need to validate names and …

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Get current language in CultureInfo

How to identify the operating system's language using CultureInfo? E.g. if the language in Windows is set to French, …

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How to convert string to double with proper cultureinfo

I have two nvarchar fields in a database to store the DataType and DefaultValue, and I have a DataType Double …

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how to set default culture info for entire c# application

I want to set default culture info for that class or for entire application. For example in Turkey 3,2 = in english 3.2 …

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I need to store postal codes in a database. How big should the column be?

I expect the column to be a VARCHAR2, in my Oracle Database. US Zips are 9. Canadian is 7. I am thinking 32 …

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