Most of the time, localized resources are tagged with a culture name such as “en-us” or “de-de”. If you’d like to know what such an ID stands for, simply convert it to [System.Globalization.CultureInfo]:
PS> [System.Globalization.CultureInfo]'en-us' LCID Name DisplayName ---- ---- ----------- 1033 en-US English (United States) PS> [System.Globalization.CultureInfo]'de-de' LCID Name DisplayName ---- ---- ----------- 1031 de-DE German (Germany)
As you see, there are culture names on a very granular level. For example, there are 106 sub-cultures that all share the same English base culture:
PS> [System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::GetCultures( [System.Globalization.CultureTypes]::AllCultures) | Where-Object Parent -eq 'en' LCID Name DisplayName ---- ---- ----------- 4096 en-001 English (World) 9225 en-029 English (Caribbean) 4096 en-150 English (Europe) 19465 en-AE English (United Arab Emirates) 4096 en-AG English (Antigua and Barbuda) 4096 en-AI English (Anguilla) 4096 en-AS English (American Samoa) 4096 en-AT English (Austria) 3081 en-AU English (Australia) 4096 en-BB English (Barbados) 4096 en-BE English (Belgium) 4096 en-BI English (Burundi) 4096 en-BM English (Bermuda) 4096 en-BS English (Bahamas) 4096 en-BW English (Botswana) 10249 en-BZ English (Belize) 4105 en-CA English (Canada) 4096 en-CC English (Cocos [Keeling] Islands) 4096 en-CH English (Switzerland) 4096 en-CK English (Cook Islands) 4096 en-CM English (Cameroon) 4096 en-CX English (Christmas Island) 4096 en-CY English (Cyprus) 4096 en-DE English (Germany) 4096 en-DK English (Denmark) 4096 en-DM English (Dominica) 4096 en-ER English (Eritrea) 4096 en-FI English (Finland) 4096 en-FJ English (Fiji) 4096 en-FK English (Falkland Islands) 4096 en-FM English (Micronesia) 2057 en-GB English (United Kingdom) 4096 en-GD English (Grenada) 4096 en-GG English (Guernsey) 4096 en-GH English (Ghana) 4096 en-GI English (Gibraltar) 4096 en-GM English (Gambia) 4096 en-GU English (Guam) 4096 en-GY English (Guyana) 15369 en-HK English (Hong Kong SAR) 14345 en-ID English (Indonesia) 6153 en-IE English (Ireland) 4096 en-IL English (Israel) 4096 en-IM English (Isle of Man) 16393 en-IN English (India) 4096 en-IO English (British Indian Ocean Territory) 4096 en-JE English (Jersey) 8201 en-JM English (Jamaica) 4096 en-KE English (Kenya) 4096 en-KI English (Kiribati) 4096 en-KN English (Saint Kitts and Nevis) 4096 en-KY English (Cayman Islands) 4096 en-LC English (Saint Lucia) 4096 en-LR English (Liberia) 4096 en-LS English (Lesotho) 4096 en-MG English (Madagascar) 4096 en-MH English (Marshall Islands) 4096 en-MO English (Macao SAR) 4096 en-MP English (Northern Mariana Islands) 4096 en-MS English (Montserrat) 4096 en-MT English (Malta) 4096 en-MU English (Mauritius) 4096 en-MW English (Malawi) 17417 en-MY English (Malaysia) 4096 en-NA English (Namibia) 4096 en-NF English (Norfolk Island) 4096 en-NG English (Nigeria) 4096 en-NL English (Netherlands) 4096 en-NR English (Nauru) 4096 en-NU English (Niue) 5129 en-NZ English (New Zealand) 4096 en-PG English (Papua New Guinea) 13321 en-PH English (Republic of the Philippines) 4096 en-PK English (Pakistan) 4096 en-PN English (Pitcairn Islands) 4096 en-PR English (Puerto Rico) 4096 en-PW English (Palau) 4096 en-RW English (Rwanda) 4096 en-SB English (Solomon Islands) 4096 en-SC English (Seychelles) 4096 en-SD English (Sudan) 4096 en-SE English (Sweden) 18441 en-SG English (Singapore) 4096 en-SH English (St Helena, Ascension, Tristan da Cunha) 4096 en-SI English (Slovenia) 4096 en-SL English (Sierra Leone) 4096 en-SS English (South Sudan) 4096 en-SX English (Sint Maarten) 4096 en-SZ English (Swaziland) 4096 en-TC English (Turks and Caicos Islands) 4096 en-TK English (Tokelau) 4096 en-TO English (Tonga) 11273 en-TT English (Trinidad and Tobago) 4096 en-TV English (Tuvalu) 4096 en-TZ English (Tanzania) 4096 en-UG English (Uganda) 4096 en-UM English (US Minor Outlying Islands) 1033 en-US English (United States) 4096 en-VC English (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) 4096 en-VG English (British Virgin Islands) 4096 en-VI English (US Virgin Islands) 4096 en-VU English (Vanuatu) 4096 en-WS English (Samoa) 7177 en-ZA English (South Africa) 4096 en-ZM English (Zambia) 12297 en-ZW English (Zimbabwe)
If your code eventually needs to check whether a given resource culture matches your interest, rather than comparing the resource culture to your UI culture, you may want to retrieve the *parent* cultures of both your UI culture and the resource and see if these match.
That way, British users (en-GB) will also find US documentation (en-us). Likewise, Swiss users (de-ch) would find German resources (de-de).
