Question

Assume that I only have a country code (en, de, fr) and I need to display the weekdays in this language.
I know about RegionInfo and CultureInfo – but I can’t find a solution.
If I create a country info from (for an example) “en” I have no DateTime info in it.
It would also be OK to just take the first matching Region. For an example en-US for en or de-DE for de.

I don’t know if there are differences in DayNames but I know there are some for the months.
de-DE Februar – de-AT Feber — anyhow I don’t care.
Event if it may be “a bit different” (to see Februar instead of Feber) – it is still German.

And that’s what I want to achive – get en an write Monday – get de and write Montag…

Is there a way to create a region just from a language code?

Answer 1

This piece may be helpful: to go from “en” to the CultureInfo, a quicker way is

CultureInfo ci = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en")

For the second part, I believe you are asking for day names, so you would write

string[] names = ci.DateTimeFormat.DayNames