How to change the MAUI DatePicker calendar view from English to french(other languages)

[saiganesh-sakthivel]

How to change the MAUI DatePicker calendar view from English to French (other languages). Even, i had try to set the culture info in the sample but it is not working. Any idea to achieve it?

[AndreasReitberger]

I set the Culture in the App.xaml.cs file like following.

public App()
{
        InitializeComponent();
       
       //....

        // Set language (culture your CultureInfo object`
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = culture;
        Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = culture;
        Strings.Culture = culture;

}

This should also update all Controls

[saiganesh-sakthivel]

Hi @AndreasReitberger ,

name context 'Strings' is not available in maui, any namespace need to added it ah?

Regards,
SaiGanesh Sakthivel

[AndreasReitberger]

Hi @saiganesh-sakthivel
Strings is my localized Strings.resx file. If you don't have such a file, you can comment this line ;)

[saiganesh-sakthivel]

Hi @AndreasReitberger ,

Thank you for the suggestions. Still facing the same issue even set the culture. MAUI DatePicker is not localized.

code snippet

public App()
{
InitializeComponent();
MainPage = new AppShell();
var culture = new CultureInfo("fr-FR"); // Replace with your desired culture or language code
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = culture;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = culture;
}

MainPage

    <VerticalStackLayout
        Spacing="25"
        Padding="30,0"
        VerticalOptions="Center">
        <DatePicker />
    </VerticalStackLayout>

[vchelaru]

I am also having the same problem with date pickers not reflecting the current culture. I've tried setting:

var ci = new CultureInfo(cultureCode);

Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = ci;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = ci;

CultureInfo.CurrentCulture = ci;
CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture = ci;

CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentCulture = ci;
CultureInfo.DefaultThreadCurrentUICulture = ci;