Language Identifiers and Locales
The NLS tables describe the language identifiers, or locale identifiers (LCIDs), available to your platform. An LCID consists of a primary language identifier, a sublanguage identifier, and a sort identifier. Platform Builder uses the LCIDs in your NLS table to determine which locales to support in your platform. You can modify the NLS table to add or remove locale information.
You can use the MAKELCID macro in your applications to create an LCID.
Use the locale identifier to set the LOCALE environment variable for a localized build of the OS.
The following table shows the worldwide locales.
| Locale identifier | Language | Sublanguage - locale | Default code page | Language code |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0x0436 | Afrikaans | South Africa | 1252 | AFK |
| 0x041c | Albanian | Albania | 1250 | SQI |
| 0x1401 | Arabic | Algeria | 1256 | ARG |
| 0x3c01 | Arabic | Bahrain | 1256 | ARH |
| 0x0c01 | Arabic | Egypt | 1256 | ARE |
| 0x0801 | Arabic | Iraq | 1256 | ARI |
| 0x2c01 | Arabic | Jordan | 1256 | ARJ |
| 0x3401 | Arabic | Kuwait | 1256 | ARK |
| 0x3001 | Arabic | Lebanon | 1256 | ARB |
| 0x1001 | Arabic | Libya | 1256 | ARL |
| 0x1801 | Arabic | Morocco | 1256 | ARM |
| 0x2001 | Arabic | Oman | 1256 | ARO |
| 0x4001 | Arabic | Qatar | 1256 | ARQ |
| 0x0401 | Arabic | Saudi Arabia | 1256 | ARA |
| 0x2801 | Arabic | Syria | 1256 | ARS |
| 0x1c01 | Arabic | Tunisia | 1256 | ART |
| 0x3801 | Arabic | U.A.E. | 1256 | ARU |
| 0x2401 | Arabic | Yemen | 1256 | ARY |
| 0x042b | Armenian | Armenia | 1251 | HYE |
| 0x044d | Assamese | India | Unicode only | ASM |
| 0x082c | Azeri | Azerbaijan (Cyrillic) | 1251 | AZE |
| 0x042c | Azeri | Azerbaijan (Latin) | 1250 | AZE |
| 0x042d | Basque | Spain | 1252 | EUQ |
| 0x0423 | Belarusian | Belarus | 1251 | BEL |
| 0x0445 | Bengali | India | BEN | |
| 0x0402 | Bulgarian | Bulgaria | 1251 | BGR |
| 0x0403 | Catalan | Spain | 1252 | CAT |
| 0x0c04 | Chinese | Hong Kong SAR | 950 | ZHH |
| 0x1404 | Chinese | Macao SAR | 950 | ZHM |
| 0x0804 | Chinese | PRC | 936 | CHS |
| 0x1004 | Chinese | Singapore | 936 | ZHI |
| 0x0404 | Chinese | Taiwan | 950 | CHT |
| 0x0827 | Classic Lithuanian | Lithuania | 1257 | LTC |
| 0x041a | Croatian | Croatia | 1250 | HRV |
| 0x0405 | Czech | Czech Republic | 1250 | CSY |
| 0x0406 | Danish | Denmark | 1252 | DAN |
| 0x0813 | Dutch | Belgium | 1252 | NLB |
| 0x0413 | Dutch | Netherlands | 1252 | NLD |
| 0x0c09 | English | Australia | 1252 | ENA |
| 0x2809 | English | Belize | 1252 | ENL |
| 0x1009 | English | Canada | 1252 | ENC |
| 0x2409 | English | Caribbean | 1252 | ENB |
| 0x1809 | English | Ireland | 1252 | ENI |
| 0x2009 | English | Jamaica | 1252 | ENJ |
| 0x1409 | English | New Zealand | 1252 | ENZ |
| 0x3409 | English | Philippines | 1252 | ENP |
| 0x1c09 | English | South Africa | 1252 | ENS |
| 0x2c09 | English | Trinidad | 1252 | ENT |
| 0x0809 | English | United Kingdom | 1252 | ENG |
| 0x0409 | English | United States | 1252 | USA |
| 0x3009 | English | Zimbabwe | 1252 | ENW |
| 0x0425 | Estonian | Estonia | 1257 | ETI |
| 0x0438 | Faeroese | Faeroe Islands | 1252 | FOS |
| 0x0429 | Farsi | Iran | 1256 | FAR |
| 0x040b | Finnish | Finland | FIN | |
| 0x080c | French | Belgium | FRB | |
| 0x0c0c | French | Canada | 1252 | FRC |
| 0x040c | French | France | 1252 | FRANCE |
| 0x140c | French | Luxembourg | 1252 | FRL |
| 0x180c | French | Monaco | 1252 | FRM |
| 0x100c | French | Switzerland | 1252 | FRS |
| 0x042f | Macedonian (FYROM) | Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia | 1251 | MKI |
| 0x0437 | Georgian | Georgia | Unicode only | KAT |
| 0x0c07 | German | Austria | 1252 | DEA |
| 0x0407 | German | Germany | 1252 | GERMANY |
| 0x1407 | German | Liechtenstein | 1252 | DEC |
| 0x1007 | German | Luxembourg | 1252 | DEL |
| 0x0807 | German | Switzerland | 1252 | DES |
| 0x0408 | Greek | Greece | 1253 | ELL |
| 0x0447 | Gujarati | India | Unicode only | GUJ |
| 0x040d | Hebrew | Israel | 1255 | HEB |
| 0x0439 | Hindi | India | Unicode only | HIN |
| 0x040e | Hungarian | Hungary | 1250 | HUN |
| 0x040f | Icelandic | Iceland | 1252 | ISL |
| 0x0421 | Indonesian | Indonesia (Bahasa) | 1252 | IND |
| 0x0410 | Italian | Italy | 1252 | ITALY |
| 0x0810 | Italian | Switzerland | 1252 | ITS |
| 0x0411 | Japanese | Japan | 932 | JAPAN |
| 0x044b | Kannada | India | Unicode only | KAN |
| 0x043f | Kazak | Kazakstan | 1251 | KAZ |
| 0x0457 | Konkani | India | Unicode only | KOK |
| 0x0412 | Korean | Korea | Unicode only | KOREA |
| 0x0440 | Kyrgyz | Kyrgyzstan | 1251 | KYR |
| 0x0426 | Latvian | Latvia | 1257 | LVI |
| 0x0427 | Lithuanian | Lithuania | 1257 | LTH |
| 0x083e | Malay | Brunei Darussalam | 1252 | MSB |
| 0x043e | Malay | Malaysia | 1252 | MSL |
| 0x044c | Malayalam | India | Unicode only | MAL |
| 0x044e | Marathi | India | Unicode only | MAR |
| 0x0450 | Mongolian | Mongolia | 1251 | MON |
| 0x0414 | Norwegian | Norway (Bokml) | 1252 | NOR |
| 0x0814 | Norwegian | Norway (Nynorsk) | 1252 | NON |
| 0x0448 | Oriya | India | ORI | |
| 0x0415 | Polish | Poland | 1250 | PLK |
| 0x0416 | Portuguese | Brazil | 1252 | BRAZIL |
| 0x0816 | Portuguese | Portugal | 1252 | PTG |
| 0x0446 | Punjabi | India | Unicode only | PAN |
| 0x0418 | Romanian | Romania | 1250 | ROM |
| 0x0419 | Russian | Russia | 1251 | RUS |
| 0x044f | Sanskrit | India | Unicode only | SAN |
| 0x0c1a | Serbian | Serbia (Cyrillic) | 1251 | SRB |
| 0x081a | Serbian | Serbia (Latin) | 1250 | SRL |
| 0x041b | Slovak | Slovakia | 1250 | SKY |
| 0x0424 | Slovene | Slovenia | 1250 | SLV |
| 0x2c0a | Spanish | Argentina | 1252 | ESS |
| 0x400a | Spanish | Bolivia | 1252 | ESB |
| 0x340a | Spanish | Chile | 1252 | ESL |
| 0x240a | Spanish | Colombia | 1252 | ESO |
| 0x140a | Spanish | Costa Rica | 1252 | ESC |
| 0x1c0a | Spanish | Dominican Republic | 1252 | ESD |
| 0x300a | Spanish | Ecuador | 1252 | ESF |
| 0x440a | Spanish | El Salvador | 1252 | ESE |
| 0x100a | Spanish | Guatemala | 1252 | ESG |
| 0x480a | Spanish | Honduras | 1252 | ESH |
| 0x080a | Spanish | Mexico | 1252 | ESM |
| 0x4c0a | Spanish | Nicaragua | 1252 | ESI |
| 0x180a | Spanish | Panama | 1252 | ESA |
| 0x3c0a | Spanish | Paraguay | 1252 | ESZ |
| 0x280a | Spanish | Peru | 1252 | ESR |
| 0x500a | Spanish | Puerto Rico | 1252 | ESU |
| 0x040a | Spanish | Spain (Traditional Sort) | 1252 | SPAIN |
| 0x0c0a | Spanish | Spain (International Sort) | 1252 | ESN |
| 0x380a | Spanish | Uruguay | 1252 | ESY |
| 0x200a | Spanish | Venezuela | 1252 | ESV |
| 0x0441 | Swahili | Kenya | 1252 | SWK |
| 0x081d | Swedish | Finland | 1252 | SVF |
| 0x041d | Swedish | Sweden | 1252 | SVE |
| 0x0449 | Tamil | India | Unicode only | TAM |
| 0x0444 | Tatar | Tatarstan | 1251 | TAT |
| 0x044a | Telugu | India | Unicode only | TEL |
| 0x041e | Thai | Thailand | 874 | THA |
| 0x041f | Turkish | Turkey | 1254 | TRK |
| 0x0422 | Ukrainian | Ukraine | 1251 | UKR |
| 0x0420 | Urdu | Pakistan | 1256 | URP |
| 0x0820 | Urdu | India | 1256 | URI |
| 0x0843 | Uzbek | Uzbekistan (Cyrillic) | 1251 | UZB |
| 0x0443 | Uzbek | Uzbekistan (Latin) | 1250 | UZB |
| 0x042a | Vietnamese | Viet Nam | 1258 | VIT |
The following special identifiers are also defined.
| Identifier | Sublanguage/locale |
|---|---|
| 0x0000 | Language-Neutral |
| 0x0400 | Process Default Language |
See Also
Locale Identifiers | Code Pages
Last updated on Friday, April 09, 2004
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