Globalized Architecture

The International Retail Site is designed to allow additional cultures to be added easily to the site. For example, the site code is separate from the string resources. Adding a language to the site is a simple process. See Adding a Language to your Site for more information.

To support globalization, the .NET Framework provides a class called CultureInfo, which represents information about a specific culture. This information includes the writing system, calendars in use, date and time formatting conventions, numeric and currency conventions, and sorting rules. Use the CultureInfo class to describe a specific culture and customize operations, such as formatting dates and numbers, sorting strings, or definitions of character sets to be appropriate for that culture.

For more information about the .NET CultureInfo class, see MSDN Library and search on CultureInfo.

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