System.Globalization

The System.Globalization namespace contains classes that define culture-related information, including the language, the country/region, the calendars in use, the format patterns for dates, currency, and numbers, and the sort order for strings. These classes are useful for writing globalized (internationalized) applications. Classes like StringInfo and TextInfo provide advanced globalization functionalities, such as surrogate support and text element processing.

Namespace hierarchy

Classes

Class	Description
Calendar	Represents time in divisions, such as weeks, months, and years.
CompareInfo	Implements a set of methods for culture-sensitive string comparisons.
CultureInfo	Represents information about a specific culture including the names of the culture, the writing system, and the calendar used, as well as access to culture-specific objects that provide information for common operations, such as formatting dates and sorting strings.
DateTimeFormatInfo	Defines how DateTime values are formatted and displayed, depending on the culture.
DaylightTime	Defines the period of daylight-saving time.
GregorianCalendar	Represents the Gregorian calendar.
HebrewCalendar	Represents the Hebrew calendar.
HijriCalendar	Represents the Hijri calendar.
JapaneseCalendar	Represents the Japanese calendar.
JulianCalendar	Represents the Julian calendar.
KoreanCalendar	Represents the Korean calendar.
NumberFormatInfo	Defines how numeric values are formatted and displayed, depending on the culture.
RegionInfo	Contains information about the country/region.
SortKey	Represents the result of mapping a string to its sort key.
StringInfo	Provides functionality to split a string into text elements and to iterate through those text elements.
TaiwanCalendar	Represents the Taiwan Calendar.
TextElementEnumerator	Enumerates the text elements of a string.
TextInfo	Defines properties and behaviors, such as casing, that are specific to a writing system.
ThaiBuddhistCalendar	Represents the Thai Buddhist calendar.

Enumerations

Enumeration	Description
CalendarWeekRule	Defines different rules for determining the first week of the year.
CompareOptions	Defines the string comparison options to use with CompareInfo.
CultureTypes	Defines the types of culture lists that can be retrieved using CultureInfo.GetCultures.
DateTimeStyles	Defines the formatting options that customize how the DateTime.Parse and DateTime.ParseExact methods parse a string.
GregorianCalendarTypes	Defines the different language versions of the Gregorian calendar.
NumberStyles	Determines the styles permitted in numeric string arguments that are passed to the Parse methods of the numeric base type classes.
UnicodeCategory	Defines the Unicode category of a character.

System.Globalization Namespace

Classes

Enumerations

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