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2026-10-18 dotnet dotnet-11 csharp

How to Format Numbers with Indian Lakh/Crore Digit Grouping in .NET (NumberGroupSizes)

Use the en-IN culture or set NumberFormatInfo.NumberGroupSizes to [3, 2] to print 12,34,56,789 instead of 123,456,789 in C#. Measured on .NET 10 and .NET 11 RC1: how the array works, why CurrencyGroupSizes is separate, the invariant-globalization trap that silently prints Western grouping, and a lakh/crore words helper.

2026-07-29 errors dotnet docker

Fix: Couldn't find a valid ICU package installed on the system in a .NET container

Your base image has no ICU. Either install icu-libs and icu-data-full, switch to an -extra image variant, or set InvariantGlobalization=true and accept ordinal-only string behavior.