Given PowerShell’s diverse user community, scripts that you share will often be run on a system set to a language other than English. To ensure that your script runs properly in other languages, it is helpful to give it a test run in that culture. Example 126 lets you run the script block you provide in a culture of your choosing.
Example 126. UseCulture.ps1
############################################################################## ## ## UseCulture.ps1 ## ## Invoke a scriptblock under the given culture ## ## ie: ## ## PS >UseCulture frFR { [DateTime]::Parse("25/12/2007") } ## ## mardi 25 décembre 2007 00:00:00## ## ##############################################################################
Example 126. UseCulture.ps1 (continued)
param( [System.Globalization.CultureInfo] $culture = $(throw "Please specify a culture"), [ScriptBlock] $script = $(throw "Please specify a scriptblock") )
## A helper function to set the current culture function SetCulture([System.Globalization.CultureInfo] $culture) {
[System.Threading.Thread]:: CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = $culture [System.Threading.Thread]:: CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = $culture }
## Remember the original culture information $oldCulture = [System.Threading.Thread]:: CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture
## Restore the original culture information if ## the user's script encounters errors. trap { SetCulture $oldCulture }
## Set the current culture to the user's provided ## culture. SetCulture $culture
## Invoke the user's scriptblock & $script
## Restore the original culture information. SetCulture $oldCulture
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