Take a look at the following code.
const string input = "interesting";
bool comparison = input.ToUpper() == "INTERESTING";
Console.WriteLine("These things are equal: " + comparison);
Console.ReadLine();
Let’s imagine that input is actually user input or some value we get from an API. That’s going to print out These things are equal: True right? Right?!
Well not if you live in Turkey. Or more accurately, not if the current culture of your operating system is tr-TR (which is likely if you live in Turkey).
To prove...
One of my favorite features of ASP.NET MVC 2 is the support for client validation. I’ve covered a bit about validation in the following two posts: ASP.NET MVC 2 Custom Validation covers writing a custom client validator. Localizing ASP.NET MVC Validation covers localizing error messages. However, one topic I haven’t covered is how validation works with globalization. A common example of this is when validating a number, the client validation should understand that users in the US enter periods as a decimal point, while users in Spain will use...
Most of the time when I’m testing my code, I only test it using the en-US culture since, ...well..., I speak English and I live in the U.S. Isn’t the U.S. the only country that matters anyway? ;) Fortunately, there are Subtext team members living in other countries ready to smack such nonsensical thoughts from my head and keep me honest about Localization and Internationalization issues. Simone, who is an Italian living in New Zealand, pointed out that a particular unit test that works on my machine always fails on his machine. Here’s the test. [RowTest]
[Row("4/12/2006", "04/12/2006 00:00:00 AM")]
[Row("20070123T120102", "01/23/2007 12:01:02...