Cultures and Subcultures

Cultures are split into cultures and subcultures. A culture represents a particular language; a subculture represents a regional variation of that language. The Framework follows the RFC1766 standard, which represents cultures and subcultures with two-letter codes. Here are the codes for English and German cultures:

en
de

Here are the codes for the Australian English and Austrian German subcultures:

en-AU
de-AT

A culture is represented in .NET with the System.Globalization.CultureInfo class. You can examine the current culture of your application as follows:

Console.WriteLine (System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture);
Console.WriteLine (System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture);