Localization :: DateTime Format, Differences Between Spanish An English?
May 21, 2010
I'm suffering a well known problem with globalization, but, I tried to find the answer in the forum and got nothing. My computer has regionalization or globalization from Colombia, as i live there. I made my site and when I published I started to get errors on dates. This errors happen because in Spanish the date format is 'dd/MM/yyyy' being dd:day, MM:month and yyyy:year. In English the date format is 'MM/dd/yyyy'.There is any form or way to correct this in the entire site?? Maybe something in the web.config file?
Using vb.net 2005/asp.net I thought I had the issue solved: I have some strings with spanish characters such as "ñ" and I need to replace characters with their non-spanish equivalent, ex: the example I just mentioned would be changed to "n".
Why would a DropDownList switch from Spanish into English when one selects a new item in it? And how does one prevent that from happening?
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When you first come to this page after having chosen Spanish as your language, the dropdown is populated with the ListItems texts displaying -- as expected -- in Spanish. But when you go to select another item from the dropdown, all the items come back in English!
When you examine the dropdown before the AutoPostBack (both server-side and in FireBug), each ListItem is properly set, as in
Value="Some English" Text="Some Español" whereas **after** the PostBack, it looks like Value="Some English" Text="The same English"
Why is this happening, and what can I do to get it to keep the Spanish one sees before any PostBacks?
**Notes**:
1. The routine pointed to in `OnSelectedIndexChanged` is currently commented out, so the problem is not there.
2. I added `EnableViewState="true"` to the DropDownList, but that didn't make any difference, so I removed it.
3. As suggested below by Ichiban, I moved setting the `Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture` from `Page_Load` to `Page_Init()`, but that too didn't make any difference.
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