Locale Code Table
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 (LCID) |
Default code page | Language: sublanguage |
|---|---|---|
| 0x0436 | 1252 | Afrikaans: South Africa |
| 0x041c | 1250 | Albanian: Albania |
| 0x1401 | 1256 | Arabic: Algeria |
| 0x3c01 | 1256 | Arabic: Bahrain |
| 0x0c01 | 1256 | Arabic: Egypt |
| 0x0801 | 1256 | Arabic: Iraq |
| 0x2c01 | 1256 | Arabic: Jordan |
| 0x3401 | 1256 | Arabic: Kuwait |
| 0x3001 | 1256 | Arabic: Lebanon |
| 0x1001 | 1256 | Arabic: Libya |
| 0x1801 | 1256 | Arabic: Morocco |
| 0x2001 | 1256 | Arabic: Oman |
| 0x4001 | 1256 | Arabic: Qatar |
| 0x0401 | 1256 | Arabic: Saudi Arabia |
| 0x2801 | 1256 | Arabic: Syria |
| 0x1c01 | 1256 | Arabic: Tunisia |
| 0x3801 | 1256 | Arabic: U.A.E. |
| 0x2401 | 1256 | Arabic: Yemen |
| 0x042b | Unicode only | Armenian: Armenia |
| 0x082c | 1251 | Azeri: Azerbaijan (Cyrillic) |
| 0x042c | 1250 | Azeri: Azerbaijan (Latin) |
| 0x042d | 1252 | Basque: Spain |
| 0x0423 | 1251 | Belarusian: Belarus |
| 0x0402 | 1251 | Bulgarian: Bulgaria |
| 0x0403 | 1252 | Catalan: Spain |
| 0x0c04 | 950 | Chinese: Hong Kong SAR, PRC (Traditional) |
| 0x1404 | 950 | Chinese: Macao SAR (Traditional) |
| 0x0804 | 936 | Chinese: PRC (Simplified) |
| 0x1004 | 936 | Chinese: Singapore (Simplified) |
| 0x0404 | 950 | Chinese: Taiwan (Traditional) |
| 0x0827 | 1257 | Classic Lithuanian: Lithuania |
| 0x041a | 1250 | Croatian: Croatia |
| 0x0405 | 1250 | Czech: Czech Republic |
| 0x0406 | 1252 | Danish: Denmark |
| 0x0813 | 1252 | Dutch: Belgium |
| 0x0413 | 1252 | Dutch: Netherlands |
| 0x0c09 | 1252 | English: Australia |
| 0x2809 | 1252 | English: Belize |
| 0x1009 | 1252 | English: Canada |
| 0x2409 | 1252 | English: Caribbean |
| 0x1809 | 1252 | English: Ireland |
| 0x2009 | 1252 | English: Jamaica |
| 0x1409 | 1252 | English: New Zealand |
| 0x3409 | 1252 | English: Philippines |
| 0x1c09 | 1252 | English: South Africa |
| 0x2c09 | 1252 | English: Trinidad |
| 0x0809 | 1252 | English: United Kingdom |
| 0x0409 | 1252 | English: United States |
| 0x3009 | 1252 | English: Zimbabwe |
| 0x0425 | 1257 | Estonian: Estonia |
| 0x0438 | 1252 | Faeroese: Faeroe Islands |
| 0x0429 | 1256 | Farsi: Iran |
| 0x040b | 1252 | Finnish: Finland |
| 0x080c | 1252 | French: Belgium |
| 0x0c0c | 1252 | French: Canada |
| 0x040c | 1252 | French: France |
| 0x140c | 1252 | French: Luxembourg |
| 0x180c | 1252 | French: Monaco |
| 0x100c | 1252 | French: Switzerland |
| 0x042f | 1251 | Macedonian (FYROM) |
| 0x0437 | Unicode only | Georgian: Georgia |
| 0x0c07 | 1252 | German: Austria |
| 0x0407 | 1252 | German: Germany |
| 0x1407 | 1252 | German: Liechtenstein |
| 0x1007 | 1252 | German: Luxembourg |
| 0x0807 | 1252 | German: Switzerland |
| 0x0408 | 1253 | Greek: Greece |
| 0x0447 | Unicode only | Gujarati: India |
| 0x040d | 1255 | Hebrew: Israel |
| 0x0439 | Unicode only | Hindi: India |
| 0x040e | 1250 | Hungarian: Hungary |
| 0x040f | 1252 | Icelandic: Iceland |
| 0x0421 | 1252 | Indonesian: Indonesia |
| 0x0410 | 1252 | Italian: Italy |
| 0x0810 | 1252 | Italian: Switzerland |
| 0x0411 | 932 | Japanese: Japan |
| 0x044b | Unicode only | Kannada: India |
| 0x0457 | Unicode only | Konkani: India |
| 0x0412 | 949 | Korean (Extended Wansung): Korea |
| 0x0440 | 1251 | Kyrgyz: Kyrgyzstan |
| 0x0426 | 1257 | Latvian: Latvia |
| 0x0427 | 1257 | Lithuanian: Lithuania |
| 0x083e | 1252 | Malay: Brunei Darussalam |
| 0x043e | 1252 | Malay: Malaysia |
| 0x044e | Unicode only | Marathi: India |
| 0x0450 | 1251 | Mongolian: Mongolia |
| 0x0414 | 1252 | Norwegian: Norway (Bokmål) |
| 0x0814 | 1252 | Norwegian: Norway (Nynorsk) |
| 0x0415 | 1250 | Polish: Poland |
| 0x0416 | 1252 | Portuguese: Brazil |
| 0x0816 | 1252 | Portuguese: Portugal |
| 0x0446 | Unicode only | Punjabi: India |
| 0x0418 | 1250 | Romanian: Romania |
| 0x0419 | 1251 | Russian: Russia |
| 0x044f | Unicode only | Sanskrit: India |
| 0x0c1a | 1251 | Serbian: Serbia (Cyrillic) |
| 0x081a | 1250 | Serbian: Serbia (Latin) |
| 0x041b | 1250 | Slovak: Slovakia |
| 0x0424 | 1250 | Slovenian: Slovenia |
| 0x2c0a | 1252 | Spanish: Argentina |
| 0x400a | 1252 | Spanish: Bolivia |
| 0x340a | 1252 | Spanish: Chile |
| 0x240a | 1252 | Spanish: Colombia |
| 0x140a | 1252 | Spanish: Costa Rica |
| 0x1c0a | 1252 | Spanish: Dominican Republic |
| 0x300a | 1252 | Spanish: Ecuador |
| 0x440a | 1252 | Spanish: El Salvador |
| 0x100a | 1252 | Spanish: Guatemala |
| 0x480a | 1252 | Spanish: Honduras |
| 0x080a | 1252 | Spanish: Mexico |
| 0x4c0a | 1252 | Spanish: Nicaragua |
| 0x180a | 1252 | Spanish: Panama |
| 0x3c0a | 1252 | Spanish: Paraguay |
| 0x280a | 1252 | Spanish: Peru |
| 0x500a | 1252 | Spanish: Puerto Rico |
| 0x0c0a | 1252 | Spanish: Spain (Modern Sort) |
| 0x040a | 1252 | Spanish: Spain (International Sort) |
| 0x380a | 1252 | Spanish: Uruguay |
| 0x200a | 1252 | Spanish: Venezuela |
| 0x0441 | 1252 | Swahili: Kenya |
| 0x081d | 1252 | Swedish: Finland |
| 0x041d | 1252 | Swedish: Sweden |
| 0x0444 | 1251 | Tatar: Tatarstan |
| 0x044a | Unicode only | Telgu: India |
| 0x041e | 874 | Thai: Thailand |
| 0x041f | 1254 | Turkish: Turkey |
| 0x0422 | 1251 | Ukrainian: Ukraine |
| 0x0820 | 1256 | Urdu: India |
| 0x0420 | 1256 | Urdu: Pakistan |
| 0x0843 | 1251 | Uzbek: Uzbekistan (Cyrillic) |
| 0x0443 | 1250 | Uzbek: Uzbekistan (Latin) |
| 0x042a | 1258 | Vietnamese: Vietnam |
Last updated on Friday, October 08, 2004
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