CultureInfo.IsNeutralCulture Property

Definition

Gets a value indicating whether the current CultureInfo represents a neutral culture.

C#
public virtual bool IsNeutralCulture { get; }

Property Value

true if the current CultureInfo represents a neutral culture; otherwise, false.

Examples

The following code example determines which cultures using the Chinese language are neutral cultures.

Note

The example displays the older zh-CHS and zh-CHT culture names with the 0x0004 and 0x7C04 culture identifiers, respectively. However, your Windows Vista applications should use the zh-Hans name instead of zh-CHS and the zh-Hant name instead of zh-CHT. The zh-Hans and zh-Hant names represent the current standard, and should be used unless you have a reason for using the older names.

C#
using System;
using System.Globalization;

public class SamplesCultureInfo
{

   public static void Main()
   {

      // Lists the cultures that use the Chinese language and determines if each is a neutral culture.
      foreach (CultureInfo ci in CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures))
      {
         if (ci.TwoLetterISOLanguageName == "zh")
         {
            Console.Write("{0,-7} {1,-40}", ci.Name, ci.EnglishName);
            if (ci.IsNeutralCulture)
            {
               Console.WriteLine(": neutral");
                }
            else
            {
               Console.WriteLine(": specific");
            }
         }
      }
   }
}


/*
This code produces the following output.

zh-Hans Chinese (Simplified)                    : neutral
zh-TW   Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)           : specific
zh-CN   Chinese (Simplified, PRC)               : specific
zh-HK   Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong S.A.R.) : specific
zh-SG   Chinese (Simplified, Singapore)         : specific
zh-MO   Chinese (Traditional, Macao S.A.R.)     : specific
zh      Chinese                                 : neutral
zh-Hant Chinese (Traditional)                   : neutral
zh-CHS  Chinese (Simplified) Legacy             : neutral
zh-CHT  Chinese (Traditional) Legacy            : neutral

*/

Remarks

A neutral culture is a culture that is associated with a language but not with a country or region. It differs from a specific culture, which is a culture that is associated with both a language and a country or region. For example, fr is the name for the neutral French culture, while fr-FR is the name for the French culture in France.

If this property returns false, the culture is either a specific culture or the invariant culture.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Core 1.0, Core 1.1, Core 2.0, Core 2.1, Core 2.2, Core 3.0, Core 3.1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
.NET Framework 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1
.NET Standard 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 2.0, 2.1
UWP 10.0

See also