Localizing and globalizing with ASP.NET Core

In Chapter 7, Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization, you learned about working with dates, times, time zones, and how to globalize and localize a .NET codebase.

In this section, we will look specifically at how to localize a website that uses ASP.NET Core.

As well as localizing string values using IStringLocalizer, you can localize HTML values using IHtmlLocalizer, but this should be done with care. Usually, HTML markup should be the same for all locales. For views, you can use IViewLocalizer.

Let’s create some resource files to localize the web user interface into American English, British English, and French, and then globalize the data like dates and currency values:

1. In the Northwind.Mvc project, add a new folder named Resources. This is the default name for the folder that localizer services look in for *.resx resource files.
2. In Resources, add a new folder named Views.
3. In Views, add...