Creating a Custom Culture using .NET

Namespace: System.Globalization

CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder class provides the facility to create new and customize existing cultures.

To install a custom culture one must have administrative privileges. One must Add Reference of sysglobal.dll in order to create objects of CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder.

CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder vCulture = new CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder(“en-US”, CultureAndRegionModifiers.Neutral);

OR

CultureInfo vCultureInfo = new CultureInfo(“en-US”);

RegionInfo vRegionInfo = new RegionInfo(“US”);

CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder vNewCulture = new CultureAndREgionInfoBuilder( “en-MS”, CultureAndRegionModifiers.Neutral);

vNewCulture.Load(vCultureInfo);

vNewCulture.Load(vRegionInfo);

CultureAndRegionModifiers Enumeration:

Class	Description
Neutral	A neutral custom culture.
None	A specific, supplemental custom culture.
Replacement	A custom culture that replaces an existing .NET Framework culture or Windows Locale.

To create a culture from scratch one must go for CultureAndRegionModifiers.Replacment.

And one must only use the CultureAndRegionInfoBuilder only when the culture intended to be created does not already exists.