WPF Arabic Culture Problem

[Davut]

Hello, I'm trying RadDatePicker WPF (2016.1.112.45), but the day numerals are not shown in "Arabic Numerals".
And also there is another problem, when I'm selecting the day from popup, its been converted to hicri date on the top side.

The startup code : (App.xaml.cs)

1.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("ar-SA");
2.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("ar-SA");

 

What am i doing wrong?

 

Note :

I'm trying this on Visual Studo 2013, win7(64bit) Turkish. 

[Nasko]

Hi Davut,

In order to present the dates into the desired format you need to set the NumberFormat of the CultureInfo to the NativeNational DigitShape:

var culture = new CultureInfo("ar-SA") { NumberFormat = { DigitSubstitution = DigitShapes.NativeNational } };
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = culture;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = culture;

As for your second question, RadDateTimePicker does not support the Hijri calendar only the Gregorian- it uses different algorithm for generating the days. Because of that the dates should be generated by the Gregorian calendar.We have a feature request logged in our Feedback portal for providing support for Hijri calendar - you could find the item on the following link where you could vote for it:
http://feedback.telerik.com/Project/143/Feedback/Details/113416-add-support-for-displaying-hijri-calendar

We hope this will help you.

Regards,
Nasko
Telerik

[Kasim]

Hi Nasko,

I just want Arabic date string with arabic digits. I tried following code:

1.DateTime date = DateTime.Now;
2.CultureInfo ci = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("ar-AE");
3.ci.NumberFormat.DigitSubstitution = DigitShapes.Context;
4.ci.DateTimeFormat.Calendar = ci.OptionalCalendars.Where(cal => GetCalendarName(cal).Contains("Hijri")).First();
5.
6.HijriDate= date.ToString("dd - MMMM - yyyy", ci);

 

Month name I am getting in Arabic but the date and year digits are coming in English. Please suggest some solution.

[Kasim]

I also tried setting DigitSubstitution to NativeNational but with no change in result.

1.ci.NumberFormat.DigitSubstitution = DigitShapes.NativeNational;

[Nasko]

Hi Kasim,

From the provided description of your scenario it seems you need the ToString method to return all digits in the "ar-AE" culture. However, the method does not support formatting the digits to the desired culture - this is a behavior built-in the Framework and is not related to the DatePicker control.

You could check the following forum post the provides a solution how to get the desired string representation of the date:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8926792/converting-numbers-from-western-arabic-digits-1-2-3-to-eastern-arabic-digit

Hope the provided information will be helpful for you.

Regards,
Nasko
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