customize a culture

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Tony Johansson

Hi!

At the bottom is some text from e-learning. I mean there are built-in rules
how the format of Date, currency, and numer and so on in all predefined
culture. So when is it a need to do a custom format for a culture. I mean if
one culture represent a Date in one way(lets call this culture x-y) which is
like a rule then you can't just create a new culture by using the
CutureAndReginBuilder based on this x-y culture and modify for example how
Date is represented.

"When localizing an application into a language for a specific region of the
world, you need to customize the way you present values to the user
according to regional and cultural conventions. After customizing the
different formats that affect how you display dates and numeric and monetary
values, you may want to reuse all these formats every time you localize an
application in this Language - Region combination."

//Tony
 
Hi!

At the bottom is some text from e-learning. I mean there are built-in rules
how the format of Date, currency, and numer and so on in all predefined
culture. So when is it a need to do a custom format for a culture. I mean if
one culture represent a Date in one way(lets call this culture x-y) which is
like a rule then you can't just create a new culture by using the
CutureAndReginBuilder based on this x-y culture and modify for example how
Date is represented.

"When localizing an application into a language for a specific region of the
world, you need to customize the way you present values to the user
according to regional and cultural conventions. After customizing the
different formats that affect how you display dates and numeric and monetary
values, you may want to reuse all these formats every time you localize an
application in this Language - Region combination."

//Tony
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The way that many things in the en-us culture are formatted are fine
until you work with the US Government. The government, especially the
military prefer a different date-time format, so customization is
required. This may be the direction the paragraph is taking the training.
 
At the bottom is some text from e-learning. I mean there are built-in rules
how the format of Date, currency, and numer and so on in all predefined
culture. So when is it a need to do a custom format for a culture. I mean if
one culture represent a Date in one way(lets call this culture x-y) which is
like a rule then you can't just create a new culture by using the
CutureAndReginBuilder based on this x-y culture and modify for example how
Date is represented.

"When localizing an application into a language for a specific region of the
world, you need to customize the way you present values to the user
according to regional and cultural conventions. After customizing the
different formats that affect how you display dates and numeric and monetary
values, you may want to reuse all these formats every time you localize an
application in this Language - Region combination."
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Just because .NET has an idea about how dates or amounts should
be formatted in Sweden, then that does not guarantee that
every application requirement in Sweden want that format.

If the requirements specify a different format, then you need
to change it.

Arne
 
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