Good morning,
Apologies for the newbie question. I’m just getting started with ASP.NET internationalization settings.
Background info:
I have a website which displays a <table> HTML object. In that <table> HTML object, I have a column which displays dates. My server being in the US, those dates show up as MM/DD/YYYY. Many of my users plug into this webpage through Excel, via the Data –> Import External Data –> Import Web Query interface. My users, for the most part, are in the US, so those dates show up correctly in their Excel screens.
Now I need to make the webpage work for UK users. As is, they are downloading the dates as MM/DD/YYYY, which makes their spreadsheets unusable since their regional settings are set to DD/MM/YYYY.
My question is:
How do I make it so the web server realizes that the incoming request has a en-GB culture setting? I could engineer my own little custom workaround, but I’m sure I’m not the first programmer to come across this. How do the pro’s handle this? I’m looking for a solution that would be relatively simple and quick to put up, but I don’t want to just put some crappy buggy piece of my own logic togethe that I’m going to dread 6 months from now.
Thanks a lot in advance, -Alan.
A couple of points:
The <globalization> element also needs the attribute culture=’auto’. The uiCulture attribute affects the language used to retrieve resources. The culture attribute affects the culture used for formatting numbers an dates.
As noted in this MSDN article, it is not a best practice to rely exclusively on browser settings to determine the UI culture for a page. Users frequently use browsers that are not set to their preferences (for example, in an Internet cafe). You should provide a method for users to explicitly choose a language or language and culture (CultureInfo name) for the page.