i have a date in the format yyyyMMdd. When I try to parse this I get the
following error: string was not recognized as a valid datetime.
I use the following code:
CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo("en-US");

Having implemented the advice I got from MichKa and Mihai (thank you
gentlemen) I have made great progress.  I got rid of the hang and the
accented characters are no longer disappearing.  But they appear as
question marks.  I'm guessing that in the language of

Well ... I'm sure a better subject would be "Improper Use of
Encoding.Unicode Causes Hang"
(And thanks Mihai for your assistance.) Clearly I don't know how to
use Encoding.

I have an encoding problem.  But how do you determine which encoding handles
which characters?  I've tried to find such info in MSDN but have not been
able to find it.  I suppose Unicode handles 'em all, but maybe that is
overkill.  My specific problem is with the accented ...

There are a few localization things I'm not clear with. I was able to
localize my winform throught the following steps:
1. Set the winform localizable to be true
2. Select the languages to foreign language I wish

I am localizing my appliation according to the users' local. All the labels
and Msgboxes displyaed according to my local's language.
But when user type something in the textBoxes it always type in English,
even i change current UI culture and windows culture.

I've been reading somewhere that it is possible to set the decimal symbol
(culture) to a dot no matter what the regional settings are set to. It was
something like Thread.culture(en-US) or so. I will need it for converting
doubles to strings throughout the program.

What should be downloaded for .Net on a Hebrew Windows XP OS?

I've got a very simple WinForms C# app that the form's Localizable property
is set to true. When you press a button it merely calls
MessageBox.Show("Hello World!"). I now have a dedicated test system
installed w/ German Win2K and the redistributable .NET 1.1 framework

I want to read an html page written in chinese and store it in a file
having extension .aspx , I'm not sure where is the problem, I use the
following lines of code:
String sAddress = "http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=en_zh&trurl=http:/
/www.etantonio ...

I need a good example of implemented custom culture, particularly custom
sorting.
I have been digging all over for this in vain, so please help me.

I want to build an index to a list of words based on the first letter of
these words for 4 languages ( french english czech spanish ).
In english there is no problem. There is no accent and all letter are based
on only one character.  

In my application I have to set different max length for fields for
different languages eq. for english : field lenth will be 10 and for french
input it can be 12 chars.
Can you suggest any Idea for this.

I have a problem with an ASP.Net web app.
As per all the suggestions for Globalisation I have seen on the web
and at TechEd, in my global.asax I obtain the user's browser Locale
settings and set the Culture for the thread accordingly:

I need to localize for Welsh, culture cy-gb.
When I attempt to create this culture, I get the following error:
"Culture name cy-gb is not supported."
Is the .net framework ever going to support this culture? I can set my