Accessing "Measurement System" unit names (kg/lb, m/in, etc) in C#

c#, regional

Solution

I believe the best you can do is to determine if your culture is metric or not and then handle it yourself. I don't think there's any built in formatting? I may be wrong though, but I cannot find any reference to it anywhere.

This will allow you to determine if your culture is metric or not:

    CultureInfo culture = new CultureInfo("en-GB");
    RegionInfo regionInfo = new RegionInfo(culture.LCID);
    bool isMetric = regionInfo.IsMetric;

Problem

Windows allows configuration of `Measurement system` to `Metric` or `U.S.` Is there a way to use this setting to read (abbreviated) unit names in C#? e.g. when displaying a weight in `Metric` I want to show `kg` but in `U.S.` I want to show `lb`. Similarly for length, volume, etc. I've looked at SystemInformation, CultureInfo, Configuration, and Globalization, but didn't see anything obvious. Did I miss something or am I looking in the wrong place?

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