#1,114 – Culture Codes

In developing applications for Windows, a culture can be thought of as the combination of a particular language and the country or region where the language is being spoken.

Examples of specific cultures, representing a language and a region, include:

• English / United States
• English / United Kingdom
• French / Belgium
• French / France
• German / Germany

Examples of neutral cultures, with no specific culture, include:

• English
• French
• German

Cultures are represented in WPF by the use of culture codes or language tags, which conform to RFC 4646.  A language tag is composed of a code representing the language and a code representing the country or region, separated by a hyphen.

Below are several examples of names for specific cultures:

• en-US  (English / United States)
• en-GB  (English / United Kingdom)
• fr-BE  (French / Belgium)
• fr-FR  (French / France)
• de-DE  (German / Germany)

A neutral culture is represented by the code for the language, by itself:

• en  (English)
• fr  (French)
• de  (German)