Windows Locale Codes - Sortable list
NOTE: Code page is an outdated method for character encoding, yet it is still in use.
It is now preferable to use 16 bit character set of Unicode.
As defined by Microsoft, a locale is either a language or a language in combination with a country. See below for the definitions of locale and LCID and other resources.
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| Locale | Language code |
LCID string |
LCID Decimal |
LCID Hexadecimal |
Codepage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | af | af | 1078 | 436 | 1252 |
| Albanian | sq | sq | 1052 | 1250 | |
| Amharic | am | am | 1118 | ||
| Arabic - Algeria | ar | ar-dz | 5121 | 1401 | 1256 |
| Arabic - Bahrain | ar | ar-bh | 15361 | 1256 | |
| Arabic - Egypt | ar | ar-eg | 3073 | 1256 | |
| Arabic - Iraq | ar | ar-iq | 2049 | 801 | 1256 |
| Arabic - Jordan | ar | ar-jo | 11265 | 1256 | |
| Arabic - Kuwait | ar | ar-kw | 13313 | 3401 | 1256 |
| Arabic - Lebanon | ar | ar-lb | 12289 | 3001 | 1256 |
| Arabic - Libya | ar | ar-ly | 4097 | 1001 | 1256 |
| Arabic - Morocco | ar | ar-ma | 6145 | 1801 | 1256 |
| Arabic - Oman | ar | ar-om | 8193 | 2001 | 1256 |
| Arabic - Qatar | ar | ar-qa | 16385 | 4001 | 1256 |
| Arabic - Saudi Arabia | ar | ar-sa | 1025 | 401 | 1256 |
| Arabic - Syria | ar | ar-sy | 10241 | 2801 | 1256 |
| Arabic - Tunisia | ar | ar-tn | 7169 | 1256 | |
| Arabic - United Arab Emirates | ar | ar-ae | 14337 | 3801 | 1256 |
| Arabic - Yemen | ar | ar-ye | 9217 | 2401 | 1256 |
| Armenian | hy | hy | 1067 | ||
| Assamese | as | as | 1101 | ||
| Azeri - Cyrillic | az | az-az | 2092 | 1251 | |
| Azeri - Latin | az | az-az | 1068 | 1254 | |
| Basque | eu | eu | 1069 | 1252 | |
| Belarusian | be | be | 1059 | 423 | 1251 |
| Bengali - Bangladesh | bn | bn | 2117 | 845 | |
| Bengali - India | bn | bn | 1093 | 445 | |
| Bosnian | bs | bs | 5146 | ||
| Bulgarian | bg | bg | 1026 | 402 | 1251 |
| Burmese | my | my | 1109 | 455 | |
| Catalan | ca | ca | 1027 | 403 | 1252 |
| Chinese - China | zh | zh-cn | 2052 | 804 | |
| Chinese - * SAR | zh | zh-hk | 3076 | ||
| Chinese - Macau SAR | zh | zh-mo | 5124 | 1404 | |
| Chinese - Singapore | zh | zh-sg | 4100 | 1004 | |
| Chinese - * | zh | zh-tw | 1028 | 404 | |
| Croatian | hr | hr | 1050 | 1250 | |
| Czech | cs | cs | 1029 | 405 | 1250 |
| Danish | da | da | 1030 | 406 | 1252 |
| Divehi | Dhivehi | Maldivian | dv | dv | |
| Dutch - Belgium | nl | nl-be | 2067 | 813 | 1252 |
| Dutch - Netherlands | nl | nl-nl | 1043 | 413 | 1252 |
| Edo | 1126 | 466 | |||
| English - Australia | en | en-au | 3081 | 1252 | |
| English - Belize | en | en-bz | 10249 | 2809 | 1252 |
| English - Canada | en | en-ca | 4105 | 1009 | 1252 |
| English - Caribbean | en | en-cb | 9225 | 2409 | 1252 |
| English - Great Britain | en | en-gb | 2057 | 809 | 1252 |
| English - India | en | en-in | 16393 | 4009 | |
| English - Ireland | en | en-ie | 6153 | 1809 | 1252 |
| English - Jamaica | en | en-jm | 8201 | 2009 | 1252 |
| English - New Zealand | en | en-nz | 5129 | 1409 | 1252 |
| English - Phillippines | en | en-ph | 13321 | 3409 | 1252 |
| English - Southern Africa | en | en-za | 7177 | 1252 | |
| English - Trinidad | en | en-tt | 11273 | 1252 | |
| English - United States | en | en-us | 1033 | 409 | 1252 |
| English - Zimbabwe | en | 12297 | 3009 | 1252 | |
| Estonian | et | et | 1061 | 425 | 1257 |
| FYRO Macedonia | mk | mk | 1071 | 1251 | |
| Faroese | fo | fo | 1080 | 438 | 1252 |
| Farsi - Persian | fa | fa | 1065 | 429 | 1256 |
| Filipino | 1124 | 464 | |||
| Finnish | fi | fi | 1035 | 1252 | |
| French - Belgium | fr | fr-be | 2060 | 1252 | |
| French - Cameroon | fr | 11276 | |||
| French - Canada | fr | fr-ca | 3084 | 1252 | |
| French - Congo | fr | 9228 | |||
| French - Cote d'Ivoire | fr | 12300 | |||
| French - France | fr | fr-fr | 1036 | 1252 | |
| French - Luxembourg | fr | fr-lu | 5132 | 1252 | |
| French - Mali | fr | 13324 | |||
| French - Monaco | fr | 6156 | 1252 | ||
| French - Morocco | fr | 14348 | |||
| French - Senegal | fr | 10252 | |||
| French - Switzerland | fr | fr-ch | 4108 | 1252 | |
| French - West Indies | fr | 7180 | |||
| Frisian - Netherlands | 1122 | 462 | |||
| Gaelic - Ireland | gd | gd-ie | 2108 | ||
| Gaelic - Scotland | gd | gd | 1084 | ||
| Galician | gl | 1110 | 456 | 1252 | |
| Georgian | ka | 1079 | 437 | ||
| German - Austria | de | de-at | 3079 | 1252 | |
| German - Germany | de | de-de | 1031 | 407 | 1252 |
| German - Liechtenstein | de | de-li | 5127 | 1407 | 1252 |
| German - Luxembourg | de | de-lu | 4103 | 1007 | 1252 |
| German - Switzerland | de | de-ch | 2055 | 807 | 1252 |
| Greek | el | el | 1032 | 408 | 1253 |
| Guarani - Paraguay | gn | gn | 1140 | 474 | |
| Gujarati | gu | gu | 1095 | 447 | |
| HID (Human Interface Device) | 1279 | ||||
| Hebrew | he | he | 1037 | 1255 | |
| Hindi | hi | hi | 1081 | 439 | |
| Hungarian | hu | hu | 1038 | 1250 | |
| Icelandic | is | is | 1039 | 1252 | |
| Igbo - Nigeria | 1136 | 470 | |||
| Indonesian | id | id | 1057 | 421 | 1252 |
| Italian - Italy | it | it-it | 1040 | 410 | 1252 |
| Italian - Switzerland | it | it-ch | 2064 | 810 | 1252 |
| Japanese | ja | ja | 1041 | 411 | |
| Kannada | kn | kn | 1099 | ||
| Kashmiri | ks | ks | 1120 | 460 | |
| Kazakh | kk | kk | 1087 | 1251 | |
| Khmer | km | km | 1107 | 453 | |
| Konkani | 1111 | 457 | |||
| Korean | ko | ko | 1042 | 412 | |
| Kyrgyz - Cyrillic | 1088 | 440 | 1251 | ||
| Lao | lo | lo | 1108 | 454 | |
| Latin | la | la | 1142 | 476 | |
| Latvian | lv | lv | 1062 | 426 | 1257 |
| Lithuanian | lt | lt | 1063 | 427 | 1257 |
| Malay - Brunei | ms | ms-bn | 2110 | 1252 | |
| Malay - Malaysia | ms | ms-my | 1086 | 1252 | |
| Malayalam | ml | ml | 1100 | ||
| Maltese | mt | mt | 1082 | ||
| Manipuri | 1112 | 458 | |||
| Maori | mi | mi | 1153 | 481 | |
| Marathi | mr | mr | 1102 | ||
| *n | mn | mn | 2128 | 850 | |
| *n | mn | mn | 1104 | 450 | 1251 |
| Nepali | ne | ne | 1121 | 461 | |
| Norwegian - Bokml | nb | no-no | 1044 | 414 | 1252 |
| Norwegian - Nynorsk | nn | no-no | 2068 | 814 | 1252 |
| Oriya | or | or | 1096 | 448 | |
| Polish | pl | pl | 1045 | 415 | 1250 |
| Portuguese - Brazil | pt | pt-br | 1046 | 416 | 1252 |
| Portuguese - Portugal | pt | pt-pt | 2070 | 816 | 1252 |
| Punjabi | pa | pa | 1094 | 446 | |
| Raeto-Romance | rm | rm | 1047 | 417 | |
| Romanian - Moldova | ro | ro-mo | 2072 | 818 | |
| Romanian - Romania | ro | ro | 1048 | 418 | 1250 |
| Russian | ru | ru | 1049 | 419 | 1251 |
| Russian - Moldova | ru | ru-mo | 2073 | 819 | |
| Sami Lappish | 1083 | ||||
| Sanskrit | sa | sa | 1103 | ||
| Serbian - Cyrillic | sr | sr-sp | 3098 | 1251 | |
| Serbian - Latin | sr | sr-sp | 2074 | 1250 | |
| Sesotho (Sutu) | 1072 | 430 | |||
| Setsuana | tn | tn | 1074 | 432 | |
| Sindhi | sd | sd | 1113 | 459 | |
| Sinhala | Sinhalese | si | si | 1115 | |
| Slovak | sk | sk | 1051 | 1250 | |
| Slovenian | sl | sl | 1060 | 424 | 1250 |
| Somali | so | so | 1143 | 477 | |
| Sorbian | sb | sb | 1070 | ||
| Spanish - Argentina | es | es-ar | 11274 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Bolivia | es | es-bo | 16394 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Chile | es | es-cl | 13322 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Colombia | es | es-co | 9226 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Costa Rica | es | es-cr | 5130 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Dominican Republic | es | es-do | 7178 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Ecuador | es | es-ec | 12298 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - El Salvador | es | es-sv | 17418 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Guatemala | es | es-gt | 4106 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Honduras | es | es-hn | 18442 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Mexico | es | es-mx | 2058 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Nicaragua | es | es-ni | 19466 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Panama | es | es-pa | 6154 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Paraguay | es | es-py | 15370 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Peru | es | es-pe | 10250 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Puerto Rico | es | es-pr | 20490 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Spain (Traditional) | es | es-es | 1034 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Uruguay | es | es-uy | 14346 | 1252 | |
| Spanish - Venezuela | es | es-ve | 8202 | 1252 | |
| Swahili | sw | sw | 1089 | 441 | 1252 |
| Swedish - Finland | sv | sv-fi | 2077 | 1252 | |
| Swedish - Sweden | sv | sv-se | 1053 | 1252 | |
| Syriac | 1114 | ||||
| Tajik | tg | tg | 1064 | 428 | |
| Tamil | ta | ta | 1097 | 449 | |
| Tatar | tt | tt | 1092 | 444 | 1251 |
| Telugu | te | te | 1098 | ||
| Thai | th | th | 1054 | ||
| * | bo | bo | 1105 | 451 | |
| Tsonga | ts | ts | 1073 | 431 | |
| Turkish | tr | tr | 1055 | 1254 | |
| Turkmen | tk | tk | 1090 | 442 | |
| Ukrainian | uk | uk | 1058 | 422 | 1251 |
| Unicode | UTF-8 | 0 | |||
| Urdu | ur | ur | 1056 | 420 | 1256 |
| Uzbek - Cyrillic | uz | uz-uz | 2115 | 843 | 1251 |
| Uzbek - Latin | uz | uz-uz | 1091 | 443 | 1254 |
| Venda | 1075 | 433 | |||
| Vietnamese | vi | vi | 1066 | 1258 | |
| Welsh | cy | cy | 1106 | 452 | |
| Xhosa | xh | xh | 1076 | 434 | |
| Yiddish | yi | yi | 1085 | ||
| Zulu | zu | zu | 1077 | 435 |
This table was generated from information at Microsoft Windows Encodings and Code Pages and additional resources listed below.
Definitions^ Back to Page top ^
Locale: A collection of language-related, user-preference information represented as a list of values.
Locale ID (LCID): A 32-bit value defined by Microsoft Windows that consists of a language ID, sort ID, and reserved bits that identify a particular language.
Codepage: "An ordered set of characters in which a numeric index (code point values) is associated with each character. The first 128 characters of each codepage are functionally the same and include all characters needed to type English text. The upper 128 characters of OEM and ANSI codepages contain characters used in a language or group of languages (Taken from Related resources below)".
Related resources
http://www.science.co.il/Language/Locale-codes.php