Cultures what are they used for...?

[ivelin.peychev]

@DavidRutten

Like the languages in the Culture parameter menu.

That reminded me something I was wondering.
What are Cultures and what are they used for?
Why is it called Cultures, that seems more like language/families?

There are also three linguistic sub-categories of Bulgarian language Official Bulgarian Language, The so called Macedonian (which is a dialect but whatever) and Banat Bulgarian Language. Banat Bulgarian is almost extinct. It is using Latin alphabet (similar to Croatian alphabet).

[DavidRutten]

Digit grouping using formatting culture

If you want culture-specific thousand separators, include a comma in the format before the decimal point symbol. In the attached file you can see various formatting rules: formatting.gh (13.2 KB) [formatting] Default formatting (will eventually round I believe or even switch to scientific notation) Forces a single (rounded) decimal digit. Includes thousand grouping and no decimals. Includes thousand grouping and at least one decimal. Two more decimals will be included but not including trai…

Get current time - bug in date format

And you can format a date using the Format component: [datetime%20formatting]

Basically, cultures are used when formatting and parsing data, and when sorting text. They can even be relevant for other text operations such as uppercasing or lowercasing.

[ivelin.peychev]

Thanks @DavidRutten,

So Format is the only component that can use cultures?

[DavidRutten]

Also Text Sort. Can’t remember if there’s a third.