Gets the current user interface (UI) culture settings in the operating system. (Get-UICulture)

   

# NAME
Get-UICulture

# SYNOPSIS
Gets the current user interface (UI) culture settings in the operating system.

# SYNTAX
Get-UICulture [<CommonParameters>]

# DESCRIPTION
The Get-UICulture cmdlet gets information about the current UI culture settings for Windows. The UI culture determines which text strings are used for user interface elements, such as menus and messages.

You can also use the Get-Culture cmdlet, which gets the current culture on the system. The culture determines the display format of items such as numbers, currency, and dates.

# PARAMETERS
<CommonParameters>
This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,
ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,
OutBuffer and OutVariable. For more information, type,
"get-help about_commonparameters".

# INPUTS
None
You cannot pipe input to this cmdlet.

# OUTPUTS
System.Globalization.CultureInfo
Get-UICulture returns an object that represents the current UI culture.

# NOTES

You can also use the $PsCulture and $PsUICulture variables. The $PsCulture variable stores the name of the current culture, and the $PsUICulture variable stores the name of the current UI culture.

# EXAMPLE 1

C:\PS>get-uiculture

# Description
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This command gets the current UI culture information.

# EXAMPLE 2

C:\PS>get-uiculture | format-list *

# Description
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This command displays the values of all of the properties of the current UI culture in a list.

# EXAMPLE 3

C:\PS>(get-uiculture).calendar

# Description
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This command displays the current values for the Calendar property of the current UI culture. Calendar is just one property of UI culture. To see all of the properties, type "get-uiculture | get-member".

# EXAMPLE 4

C:\PS>(get-uiculture).datetimeformat.shortdatepattern

# Description
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This command displays the short date pattern for the current UI culture. To see all of the subproperties of the DateTimeFormat property of the UI culture, type "(get-uiculture).datetimeformat | gm".

RELATED LINKS
Online version: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113334

C:\Windows>powershell get-help Get-Unique -full

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