.net mvc application load wrong language resource file

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Hello everyone I'm writing a small asp.net mvc application and i want to make it localized and support more than one language I've found many useful articles

I added routing for languages I used a custom actionfilter attribute to choose current culture of current thread depending on the language code in url like "site.com/en/controller/action" for english or "site.com/ar/controller/action" for arabic.

i created "Resources\Views\Shared\Layout.resex" for english language and "Resources\Views\Shared\Layout.ar.resex" for arabic language.

the problem that it is stuck with arabic localization only and i set the current thread culture manually to english and removed actionfilter attribute but it still display arabic content!! what is the problem this is crazr

Clafou · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-24 09:14:18Z

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It's hard to tell without more detail or code, but one easy thing to miss is your web.config file's configuration. If you have something like <globalization uiCulture="auto" culture="auto" /> in <system.web> (with "auto" instead of culture identifiers) then ASP.NET will use the accept-language header, which is determined by your browser's language settings, to automatically choose your thread's cultures. So what you are seeing could be partially explained by having this configuration and having Arabic ahead of English in your browser's language list.

Edit: The issue was that the code needs to use of Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture to control what localized resources are used (Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture is a different thing, doesn't affect localization but locale-dependent formatting/parsing such as dates).

edited Oct 24, 2012 at 9:14

answered Oct 23, 2012 at 12:47

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ahmedsafan86 Over a year ago

that didn't solve the problem i used <globalization fileEncoding="utf-8" uiCulture="auto" culture="auto" enableClientBasedCulture="false" /> now it is stuck to english in other words this line Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US"); has no effect when i use ar-EG or en-US the default file is the only one used

Clafou Over a year ago

Note that enableClientBasedCulture doesn't do anything, have a look at this post: stackoverflow.com/questions/8536715/… But I think I know what your issue is: for localization it is not Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture that you need to set but Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture.

ahmedsafan86 Over a year ago

yes man when i saw the example i thought it was a duplicated line then didn't write it. when i realized i wrote it every thing was okay and i wanted to share the solution and you mentioned the problem thanks a lot for trying to help please edit your answer to include your last comment about adding CurrentCulture.

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