Windows comes with built-in support for various cultures. Here is the list of supported cultures and their short name:
PS> [System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::GetCultures('AllCultures') | Select-Object -Property Name, DisplayName
Name DisplayName
---- -----------
aa Afar
aa-DJ Afar (Djibouti)
aa-ER Afar (Eritrea)
aa-ET Afar (Ethiopia)
af Afrikaans
af-NA Afrikaans (Namibia)
af-ZA Afrikaans (South Africa)
...
It also comes with fully translated expressions for date and time components. If you’d like to know the weekday names used in Kikuyu (Kenya), look up the appropriate culture name (“ki”), then try this:
PS> [System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::GetCultureInfo( 'ki' ).DateTimeFormat.DayNames Kiumia Njumatatu Njumaine Njumatana Aramithi Njumaa Njumamothi
You could even create a “translation table” for multiple languages because what you see in DayNames is an array with a numeric index:
PS> [System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::GetCultureInfo( 'ki' ).DateTimeFormat.DayNames[0] Kiumia
Here is a translation table showing English and Chinese day names:
$english = [System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::GetCultureInfo( 'en' ).DateTimeFormat.DayNames $chinese = [System.Globalization.CultureInfo]::GetCultureInfo( 'zh' ).DateTimeFormat.DayNames for($x=0 $x-lt7; $x++) { [PSCustomObject]@{ English = $english[$x] Chinese = $chinese[$x] } }
The result looks like this:
English Chinese ------- ------- Sunday 星期日 Monday 星期一 Tuesday 星期二 Wednesday 星期三 Thursday 星期四 Friday 星期五 Saturday 星期六
