CurrentUICulture and new created CultureInfo Instance

Question

I'm trying to find out program's language and change my string for this language

CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo("en");
CultureInfo currentCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture;
string msg="";
if (currentCulture == culture)
{
    msg = "Some words";
}

Even though values of culture and currentCulture are the same if statement is not working and my msg string is not changing.

Here is my debug results

Name--Value--Type

culture -- {en} -- System.Globalization.CultureInfo

currentCulture -- {en} -- System.Globalization.CultureInfo

Answer 1

Your culture could be represented as en-Us. Debug your code first. That might be the problem.

CultureInfo is a class, so it is a reference type. When you compare two different reference with ==, it always return false. You can try to compare them based their CultureInfo.Name property for example. Like;

if(currentCulture.Name == culture.Name)
{
   msg = "Some words";
}

Answer 2

CultureInfo is a reference-type without an override of Equals() so 2 separate instances will always be unequal.

This little piece of code will print False:

  var c1 = new CultureInfo("en");
  var c2 = new CultureInfo("en");
  Console.WriteLine(c1 == c2);

You can compare on a property, Name and LCID seem good candidates.