New .NET 2.0 Security Patch Changes Some Culture Names on Windows XP/2003/2000 [Justin Van Patten]
Shawn Steele just posted a blog entry entitled Security patch MS07-040 for .Net 2.0 breaks some culture names for .Net 2.0 on Windows XP/2003/2000.
He includes a table that lists the culture names that have changed:
| Old .Net Name | RFC 4646 Name, as patched. | |
| en-CB | -> | en-029 |
| az-AZ-Latn | -> | az-Latn-AZ |
| uz-UZ-Latn | -> | uz-Latn-UZ |
| sr-SP-Latn | -> | sr-Latn-CS |
| az-AZ-Cyrl | -> | az-Cyrl-AZ |
| uz-UZ-Cyrl | -> | uz-Cyrl-UZ |
| sr-SP-Cyrl | -> | sr-Cyrl-CS |
| bs-BA-Cyrl | -> | bs-Cyrl-BA |
| sr-BA-Latn | -> | sr-Latn-BA |
| sr-BA-Cyrl | -> | sr-Cyrl-BA |
| bs-BA-Latn | -> | bs-Latn-BA |
| iu-CA-Latn | -> | iu-Latn-CA |
| div-MV | -> | dv-MV |
| zh-CHT | -> | zh-Hant |
| zh-CHS | -> | zh-Hans |
Check out his blog post for more information on how this change can break applications and for workarounds. There's also an associated KB article available at https://support.microsoft.com/kb/939949.