String.Format and culture

Question

When formatting a string as opposed to a DateTime, does the culture ever come into play? Are there any examples of strings that would be formatted differently with two different cultures?

Answer 1

I don't believe so in the current Framework. But if Microsoft ever implements this suggestion on the Connect feedback site, it includes a suggestion to have a format specifier to force upper case:

String.Format("{0:U}", "SomeString") => "SOMESTRING"

Such formatting would be culture-specific.

Answer 2

If you are displaying a string that is stored as a resource it will make a difference if you have separate strings for different cultures (you'd use CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture). For example error messages accessed via a ResourceManager.