How to get current regional settings in C#?

Question

Normally you can get it by writing something like

CultureInfo currentCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture;

But this way you can only ge

Answer 1

There are the classes CultureInfo and TextInfo from the namespace System.Globalization. Both classes get several windows regional settings defined in the control panels. The list of available settings is in the documentation.

For example:

string separator = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.TextInfo.ListSeparator;

is getting the list separator for the program which is running.