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Silverlight 3; switching to zh-Hans culture excludes exception

I am trying to localize a Silverlight 3.0 application in Simplified Chinese.

However, when I try to navigate to this culture (zh-Hans, according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.cultureinfo%28VS.95%29.aspx ) with this code:

var currentCulture = new CultureInfo("zh-Hans");
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = currentCulture;
Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = currentCulture;

I am getting the following exception:

Culture name 'zh-Hans' is not supported.

I am using Windows XP SP3 on an en-GB machine.

Is this a Silverlight 3 issue? Or do I need to install some additional Windows XP language packs?

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The problem turned out to be that my Windows XP installation (default en-GB) had no files for East Asian languages ​​installed by default.

Enabling them was pretty easy - see http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/Language/asianlanguageinstallation_XP.html for instructions.

After doing this, I was able to change Silverlight 3.0 to zn-Hans and zn-SG

var currentCulture = new CultureInfo("zh-Hans");


or

var currentCulture = new CultureInfo("zh-SG");

and etc.

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