Headline: Putting the following code in the web config (at least for an ASP.NET MVC app) will cause your pages to honor the user’s browser settings.
Code Snippet
- <!–If culture and uiCulture are set to auto, ASP.NET can set the UI culture and culture for a Web page automatically, based on the values that are sent by a browser.–>
- <globalization culture="auto:en-US" uiCulture="auto:en"/>
- </system.web>
I got the idea from the following post:
But when I ran tests and looked at the Microsoft documentation, the enableClientBasedCulture is not used at this time (not even in .NET 4.0):
However, the thread did send me in the right direction. So now if a user sets their language for Internet Explorer:
Tools –> Internet Options
Then Languages:
In the example above, the preferred language is en-GB (Great Britain English) which will display dates in dd/mm/yyyy order. When I display a web page today (5 Feb 2010) I can see this:
When this was in the Site.Master:
Code Snippet
- [<%= System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture.Name %>] <%= DateTime.Today.ToShortDateString() %>
Works great!