[Mono-dev] set culture uses serialization?

[Steve Bjorg]

Korean culture cannot be instantiated as
	new CultureInfo("ko-kr")
throws an exception stating it's not implemented.

There is work item filed to be update the locale builder:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=324483


There are other cultures missing as well.  The following code  
instantiates all 134 cultures lists in the attached file.

using System;
using System.Globalization;

namespace CultureCheck {
     class Program {
         static void Main(string[] args) {
             if(System.IO.File.Exists("cultures.txt")) {
                 string[] cultures = System.IO.File.ReadAllLines 
("cultures.txt");
                 int failed = 0;
                 int succeeded = 0;
                 foreach(string culture in cultures) {
                     try {
                         CultureInfo info = new CultureInfo 
(culture.Trim());
                         string now = DateTime.UtcNow.ToString 
(info.DateTimeFormat);
                         ++succeeded;
                     } catch {
                         ++failed;
                         Console.WriteLine(culture);
                     }
                 }
                 Console.WriteLine("Tested {0} cultures: {1}  
succeeded, {2} failed", succeeded + failed, succeeded, failed);
             } else {
                 Console.Error.WriteLine("MISSING FILE: cultures.txt");
             }
         }
     }
}


Only 26 out of 134 cultures fail on mono 1.2.6:
az-cyrl-az
az-latn-az
dv-mv
en-bz
en-029
en-jm
en-tt
fr-mc
ka-ge
de-li
kk-kz
kok-in
ko-kr
ky-kg
ms-bn
ms-my
mn-mn
pa-in
sa-in
sr-cyrl-cs
sr-latn-cs
syr-sy
tt-ru
ur-pk
uz-cyrl-uz
uz-latn-uz

List of missing cultures is also available here (highlighted in  
yellow): http://wiki.opengarden.org/Deki_Wiki/Languages

Some of these should be trivial as they are identical to existing ones:
* English (Belize)
* English (Caribbean)
* English (Jamaica)
* English (Trinidad and Tobago)
* French (Monaco)
* German (Liechtenstein)

Others are likely more complicated.  Of those, a high-priority  
culture is Korean.


- Steve

--------------
Steve G. Bjorg
http://wiki.mindtouch.com
http://wiki.opengarden.org


On Jan 4, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

>
>> This issue and the fact that Korean isn't supported for CultureInfo
>> are blockers for a large customer deployment of ours.  Is there any
>> way these issues can be addressed?  Who is working on CultureInfo?
>
> What seems to be the problem with Korean?
>
> Please provide a stack trace, a bug report, or a sample program that
> fails with Korean.
>
> Miguel.
>
>
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