Realm Database locale support - xamarin

I am investigating the internationalisation of my Xamarin mobile application. We use Realm as the local storage.
Does anyone know the status of the locale support in Realm, or of any limitations in this regard.
Thanks in advance.

I recommend you to use resx files for localization. This is the documentation link where you can find some samples.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/xamarin-forms/app-fundamentals/localization/text?pivots=windows
other option could be using json files for each language that you want to support.
You can use IMarkupExtension to set the key in the xaml and with the IMarkupExtension class return the correct value depending your device language.
Text="{locale:YourLocalizationMarkupExtension Name}"

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