How to set the ConverterCulture at Xamarin Forms in XAML

Asked May 09 '17 at 07:22

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I am using Xamarin Forms (XAML) at a project where I need to show a price. To show the correctly formatted price I am using StringFormat like:

<Label Text="{Binding Price, StringFormat='{}{0:C}'}"/>

The result depends on the culture of the device the app is running (German: €, American: $, ...). My goal is always to use the German culture. Based on adrianbanks answer this is possible in WPF. I tried to use this approach like

<Label Text="{Binding Price, StringFormat='{}{0:C}', ConverterCulture='de-DE'}"/>

but the result is the following XamlParseException:

Xamarin.Forms.Xaml.XamlParseException: Cannot assign property "CultureInfo": Property does not exists, or is not assignable, or mismatching type between value and property

It seems like Xamarin Forms does not provide this. I searched a lot but found no solution how to set the culture of the formatter in XAML. Is there a wy to solve my problem without implementing my own converter?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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have you tried setting `xml:lang="de-DE"` at the top level? for example if you use an `UserControl` ``? – XAMlMAX May 11 '17 at 11:54
I tried your suggestion @XAMIMAX but its not working. – Fruchtzwerg May 11 '17 at 18:36
`` I meant in the actual User Control. – XAMlMAX May 12 '17 at 07:00
Yeah I tried it like this – Fruchtzwerg May 12 '17 at 09:47
Did you resolve this? – David Clarke May 30 '18 at 03:12
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I used a workaround setting the culture of the whole application like `CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("de-DE");`. Unfortunately this is just a dirty workaround since I found no better way. – Fruchtzwerg May 30 '18 at 11:18
My Xamarin.Forms project doesn't even give me the CultureConverter attribute of the Binding markup extension. – Sep 16 '18 at 11:46
Filled an issue related to this [Implement ConverterCulture for bindings #12181](https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/12181) – Cfun Nov 14 '20 at 18:04

How to set the ConverterCulture at Xamarin Forms in XAML

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