Get-Culture currently supports returning information about the current culture.
It would be helpful if it supported a -Name switch to allow retrieving information about a specified culture.
(This would be analogous to existing Get-Date behavior, which by default returns the current date and optionally supports operating on a specified date via -Date.)
Also, as @iSazonov suggests, listing available cultures should be supported: -ListAvailable, supplemented by an optional -Type parameter that defaults to SpecificCultures - (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.culturetypes(v=vs.110).aspx for permissible values, though not all of them may make sense).
Desired behavior
# Should be the equivalent of: [cultureinfo]::GetCultureInfo('fr-FR')
> Get-Culture fr-FR # assumes that -Name is the 1st positional param
LCID Name DisplayName
---- ---- -----------
1036 fr-FR French (France)
# Should be the equivalent of [cultureinfo]::GetCultures('SpecificCultures')
> Get-Culture -ListAvailable
LCID Name DisplayName
---- ---- -----------
4096 af-NA Afrikaans (Namibië)
1078 af-ZA Afrikaans (South Africa)
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PowerShell Core v6.0.0-beta (v6.0.0-beta.1)
Get-Culturecurrently supports returning information about the current culture.It would be helpful if it supported a
-Nameswitch to allow retrieving information about a specified culture.(This would be analogous to existing
Get-Datebehavior, which by default returns the current date and optionally supports operating on a specified date via-Date.)Also, as @iSazonov suggests, listing available cultures should be supported:
-ListAvailable, supplemented by an optional-Typeparameter that defaults toSpecificCultures- (see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.culturetypes(v=vs.110).aspx for permissible values, though not all of them may make sense).Desired behavior
Environment data