get current culture or browser locale on mvc 4

Question

How do you get current culture or browser locale on MVC 4.

I find some samples which gets it from HttpContext and HttpRequest but this doesnt work on MVC 4.

How do you do it on MVC 4?

Answer 1

I find some samples which gets it from HttpContext and HttpRequest but this doesnt work on MVC 4.

I just love the it doesn't work problem description!!! It's like saying to a mechanic whom you don't want to pay for the job: my car doesn't work, tell me what is wrong with it so that I can fix it myself, without showing him your car of course.

Anyway, you still got the HttpRequest in your controller action. Look at the UserLanguages property:

public ActionResult SomeAction()
{
    string[] userLanguages = Request.UserLanguages;
    ...
}

Remark: the value of this property will be null if the user agent didn't send the Accept-Languages request header. So make sure you check whether it is not null before accessing its value to avoid getting NREs.