Viewing a cultural spoken language as output in C# console app

Question

When using the following C# code in a console app, why do I not see the respective cultural language as output? In this case, en-UK for English spoken in the UK and fr-CA for French spoken in Canada. I would expect currency for the dollar and the pound to be shown as well.

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = 
  System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-UK");

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = 
  System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("fr-CA");

Answer 1

@Glenn Meadows, Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, you could try the following code to get the respective cultural language output.

    internal class Program
    {
        static Random rnd = new Random();
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.OutputEncoding= Encoding.UTF8;
            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("fr-FR");
            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("fr-FR");
            DisplayValues();
            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("EN-US");
            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("EN-US");
            DisplayValues();
            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("JP-JP");
            Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("JP-JP");
            DisplayValues();

        }
        private static void DisplayValues()
        {

            Console.WriteLine("Some currency values:");
            for (int ctr = 0; ctr <= 3; ctr++)
                Console.WriteLine("   {0:C2}", rnd.NextDouble() * 10);
        }
    }

Based on my test, the three languages could get different currency formats:

Best Regards,

Jack

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