Programming Visual Basic .NET

Appendix C. Cultures

The @ Page directive can include a Culture attribute that allows you to specify the language and culture for which the page is intended. This appendix lists the names of the cultures that can be supplied as arguments to the Culture attribute. A culture name has the general format

<languagecode>-<country/regioncode>

where < languagecode > is a lowercase code generally consisting of two letters that defines a language, and < country/regioncode > is an uppercase two-letter code defining the country or region in which that language is used. In a few cases, the Culture attribute takes the form

<charactercode>-<languagecode>-<countrycode>

where < charactercode > is a mixed case two-letter code (e.g., Cy for Cyrillic) indicating the character set, <languagecode> is a lowercase two-letter code indicating the language, and < countrycode > is an uppercase two-letter code defining the country in which that language and character set are used.

A culture name that takes the form < languagecode > only is a neutral culture ; it is associated with a language, but not with a particular country or region.

Culture name	LCID	Culture display name
af	54	Afrikaans
af-ZA	1078	Afrikaans (South Africa)
ar	1	Arabic
ar-AE	14337	Arabic (U.A.E.)
ar-BH	15361	Arabic (Bahrain)
ar-DZ	5121	Arabic (Algeria)
ar-EG	3073	Arabic (Egypt)
ar-IQ	2049	Arabic (Iraq)
ar-JO	11265	Arabic (Jordan)
ar-KW	13313	Arabic (Kuwait)
ar-LB	12289	Arabic (Lebanon) ...