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    <p>In an application I'm writing I want to display the current date and time, in English, but also in other locales.</p> <p>For example Russian, Arabic and Chinese.</p> <pre><code>// DateTime.ToLongDateString doesn't support a IFormatProvider parameter DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd, d MMMM, yyyy", new CultureInfo("en-US")); // "Wednesday, 7 August, 2013" DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd, d MMMM, yyyy 'r.'", new CultureInfo("ru-RU")); // "среда, 7 августа, 2013 r." </code></pre> <p>Works fine...</p> <pre><code>DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd٫ d MMM٫ yyyy", new CultureInfo("ar")); // "الأربعاء٬ 30 رمضان٬ 1434" </code></pre> <p>Seems to work fine.</p> <p><em>However...</em> I'd like to show the numerals as (Eastern) Arabic numerals, not as Latin/Arabic numerals. Though this could of course be solved by doing a simple substitution ('٠‎' to '0', 1 to '١' etc).</p> <p>But then there's Chinese:</p> <pre><code>DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy年M月d日dddd", new CultureInfo("zh-CN")) // "2013年8月7日星期三" </code></pre> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numeral#Written_numbers" rel="noreferrer">Chinese numerals</a> seem to be quite a bit more complex than just doing a simple substitution; sometimes one character becomes 2. Next to that, The formatted date seems to show the current Gregorian date, not the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar" rel="noreferrer">current Chinese date</a>.</p> <p><strong>So my question is:</strong></p> <p>A) Is there any localization functionality in .NET/C# to display numbers (specificly dates) in other numeralsystems?</p> <p>B) Can i force .NET/C# to display dates in the Chinese (and possibly Japanese and other) calendars, as it seems to do with the Arabic calendar?</p>
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