How to get the main cultur's language from Country Code?

Hello,

I am using a web service which return country code by the IP.

Now I need to retrieve the language code so I can create a CultureInfo.

How do I do that?

Re: How to get the main cultur's language from Country Code?

Hi,

You need to set CultureInfo in global.asax.

Please go through below link:

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/pradeepkv/MultilingualAppsInNet11282005010748AM/MultilingualAppsInNet.aspx

I hope it will helpful to you.

Regards,

Tapan

Re: How to get the main cultur's language from Country Code?

You have to store in DB with country and language, because on country can have multiple language.

Re: How to get the main cultur's language from Country Code?

Hi,

Please go through below link:

http://madskristensen.net/post/Get-language-and-country-from-a-browser-in-ASPNET.aspx

Re: How to get the main cultur's language from Country Code?

If you will go to above link it was mentioned that language code can be multiple and it is not 100% accurate, so that why I am prefering to keep in our own database because we needs only limited culture and that should be 100% as per our expectation not surprise :)

Re: How to get the main cultur's language from Country Code?

right u have to store country code in DB.

If u developing very complex application and u not have such time than u use online webservices that providing

Language code of any country code.

Here u will get standard language code if country using multiple languages.

Thanks

Re: How to get the main cultur's language from Country Code?

Chintan Dave

right u have to store country code in DB.

If u developing very complex application and u not have such time than u use online webservices that providing

Language code of any country code.

Here u will get standard language code if country using multiple languages.

Thanks

do you familiar with such a web service out there? I don't have a time to make my own database because I am using for about 60 languages, and for them there is hundreds of culture....

Re: How to get the main cultur's language from Country Code?

Hi havent use this type of web service. It should be availbe in Net.

by the way i can get data from this site and also can download.

http://www.mcanerin.com/EN/articles/meta-language.asp

From this link u can download codes:

http://www.ethnologue.com/codes

Thanks,

Re: How to get the main cultur's language from Country Code?

Thank you for your links.

although, you cannot create CultureInfo object with that database. CultureInfoe.GetCulture will accept code such of "en" and not such as presented in database.

about the accept-language you have suggested. this is according to a browser settings. that means that when a user login from INDIA and it's OS using HEBREW it will still displays HEBREW and not INDIA nativae language (which I don't know what it is:) ).

I am looking for a way to convert IP location into language codes that will be accepted by cultureInfo object.

here is my code:

foreach (CultureInfo ci in CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.NeutralCultures))
{
                    if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(ci.ToString()))
                    {
                        DataRow dr = data.NewRow();
                        dr["ControlID"] = ci.IetfLanguageTag;
                        dr["ControlName"] = ci.NativeName;
                        dr["ImageName"] = ci.IetfLanguageTag + ".png";


                        data.Rows.Add(dr);
                    }

}

I selected here only languages. from IetfLanguageTag I have to conver it to the correct language codes as they displayed on IetfLanguageTag variable.

What do you think? maybe a redesign is needed?

Re: How to get the main cultur's language from Country Code?

Ohh.

So may be u can try to set language according User's Browser language.

But If u want to get lan. code from Ip Address.Than i can suggest some sites.

Also i found some Web service that convert Ip 2 LOcation and so by use of it u can convert it in a lan. code.

I dont no these service are free or not. But Check it out your self.

http://www.fraudlabs.com/ip2location.aspx
http://www.ip2location.com/webservices.aspx
http://ws.ip2location.com/ip2locationwebservice.asmx?op=IP2Location
Google Search:
ip2location web service

alo check out this sites for more knowledge:

http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/
http://www.1keydata.com/blog/2006/09/convert-ip-address-to-country.html
http://www.filebuzz.com/files/Convert_Ip_Address_To_Geographic_Location/freeware-1.html
http://www.byteblocks.com/post/2009/06/01/Convert-IP-To-Location-and-Address-To-Location.aspx
http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/book/print/5
http://www.ip2location.com/free.asp

Reverse DNS Lookup
http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/dns-ipaddress-lookup.php

Thanks
Chintan Dave.

Re: How to get the main cultur's language from Country Code?

Chintan has given good suggestion,but keep in mond that even you are fetching culture rom web service but keep hook on your hand like in db we have hindi but we need to set genrally prefer to see in english en-GB, so it overrides service else it will display hindi for tamil or telgu person. Please let me know if you need more info. Hope I am not confusing :)

Re: How to get the main cultur's language from Country Code?

Chintan Dave

Ohh.

So may be u can try to set language according User's Browser language.

But If u want to get lan. code from Ip Address.Than i can suggest some sites.

Also i found some Web service that convert Ip 2 LOcation and so by use of it u can convert it in a lan. code.

I dont no these service are free or not. But Check it out your self.

http://www.fraudlabs.com/ip2location.aspx
http://www.ip2location.com/webservices.aspx
http://ws.ip2location.com/ip2locationwebservice.asmx?op=IP2Location
Google Search:
ip2location web service

alo check out this sites for more knowledge:

http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/
http://www.1keydata.com/blog/2006/09/convert-ip-address-to-country.html
http://www.filebuzz.com/files/Convert_Ip_Address_To_Geographic_Location/freeware-1.html
http://www.byteblocks.com/post/2009/06/01/Convert-IP-To-Location-and-Address-To-Location.aspx
http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/book/print/5
http://www.ip2location.com/free.asp

Reverse DNS Lookup
http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/dns-ipaddress-lookup.php

Thanks
Chintan Dave.

Thank you for your links:)

Although all of this links is to get the country code.

Here is a data example that this webservices returnes:

Input Data
IP	68.142.197.65
LICENSE	(Your License Key)

Result
COUNTRYCODE	US
COUNTRYNAME	UNITED STATES
REGION	CALIFORNIA
CITY	SUNNYVALE
IP2LATITUDE	37
IP2LONGITUDE	-122
ZIPCODE	94089
ISPNAME	INKTOMI CORPORATION
DOMAINNAME	YAHOO.COM
CREDITSAVAILABLE	(Your Credit Available)
MESSAGE

How can I create a CultureInfo object from that? CultureInfo using such codes EN-US EN-GB and so on.
If there is a tables that will do the connection between country code (US) to "EN" language, then the problem solved. untill I cannot doing the conversion and get "EN" value I cannot create CultureInfo object, which is the object needed to work multilangual with ASP.NET

I hope I am clear.

Re: How to get the main cultur's language from Country Code?

create base page and have to use connection table as I mentioned above, go through below forum

http://forums.asp.net/t/1514920.aspx

Mark as answer if it helps.

Re: How to get the main cultur's language from Country Code?

ye.

check this page to implement Localisation.

http://forums.asp.net/t/1514920.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c6zyy3s9.aspx

Mark as Answer if u get

Re: How to get the main cultur's language from Country Code?

Thanks!