Globalization and Localization with Python.NET

This section explains how Aspose.Cells for Python via .NET handles globalization and localization features for working with international data formats. Learn to manage regional settings, date/time formats, and number formatting across different locales.

Key Features

• Culture-specific number formatting
• Locale-aware date/time parsing
• Multilingual text handling
• Regional format conversions
• Unicode support for global character sets

Locale Configuration

To set culture-specific formatting:

1. Import the CultureInfo class
2. Configure workbook locale settings
3. Apply regional format patterns

from aspose.cells import Workbook, CultureInfo

# Create workbook with specific culture
culture = CultureInfo("de-DE")
workbook = Workbook()
workbook.settings.culture_info = culture

Handling Regional Formats

Aspose.Cells automatically adapts to regional settings for:

• Date display formats (MM/dd/yyyy vs dd/MM/yyyy)
• Number decimal separators (1,000.50 vs 1.000,50)
• Currency symbols placement (€100 vs 100€)
• Time format representations (12h vs 24h clock)

Best Practices

• Explicitly set CultureInfo for consistent formatting
• Use Unicode encoding for multilingual content
• Validate locale-specific formulas
• Test number parsing with different regional settings