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Language Identifiers and Locales

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

4/8/2010

The NLS tables describe the language identifiers available to an OS design. A language identifier is a sixteen bit value that consists of a primary language identifier and a sublanguage identifier. This differs slightly from a locale identifier (LCID), which is 32 bits and includes the primary language identifier, sublanguage identifier and a sort identifier.

Platform Builder uses the LCIDs in your NLS table to determine which locales to support in your OS design. You can modify the NLS table to add or remove locale information. Use the MAKELCID macro in your applications to create an LCID. Use the language identifier to set the LOCALE environment variable for a localized build of the OS.

The following table shows the worldwide languages and locales.

Language 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

Unicode only

HYE

0x082c

Azeri

Azerbaijan (Cyrillic)

1251

AZE

0x042c

Azeri

Azerbaijan (Latin)

1254

AZE

0x042d

Basque

Spain

1252

EUQ

0x0423

Belarusian

Belarus

1251

BEL

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

0x041a

Croatian

Croatia

1250

HRV

0x0405

Czech

Czech Republic

1250

CSY

0x0406

Danish

Denmark

1252

DAN

0x0465

Divehi

Maldives

Unicode only

DIV

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

Faroese

Faroe Islands

1252

FOS

0x0429

Farsi

Iran

1256

FAR

0x040b

Finnish

Finland

1252

FIN

0x080c

French

Belgium

1252

FRB

0x0c0c

French

Canada

1252

FRC

0x040c

French

France

1252

FRA

0x140c

French

Luxembourg

1252

FRL

0x180c

French

Monaco

1252

FRM

0x100c

French

Switzerland

1252

FRS

0x042f

F.Y.R.O. Macedonia

F.Y.R.O. Macedonia

1251

MKI

0x0456

Galician

Spain

1252

GLC

0x0437

Georgian

Georgia

Unicode only

KAT

0x0c07

German

Austria

1252

DEA

0x0407

German

Germany

1252

DEU

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

ITA

0x0810

Italian

Switzerland

1252

ITS

0x0411

Japanese

Japan

932

JPN

0x044b

Kannada

India (Kannada script)

Unicode only

KAN

0x043f

Kazakh

Kazakstan

1251

KKZ

0x0457

Konkani

India

Unicode only

KNK

0x0412

Korean

Korea

949

KOR

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

0x044e

Marathi

India

Unicode only

MAR

0x0450

Mongolian (Cyrillic)

Mongolia

1251

MON

0x0414

Norwegian

Norway (Bokmål)

1252

NOR

0x0814

Norwegian

Norway (Nynorsk)

1252

NON

0x0415

Polish

Poland

1250

PLK

0x0416

Portuguese

Brazil

1252

PTB

0x0816

Portuguese

Portugal

1252

PTG

0x0446

Punjabi

India (Gurmukhi script)

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

Slovenian

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

ESP

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

0x045a

Syriac

Syria

Unicode only

SYR

0x0449

Tamil

India

Unicode only

TAM

0x0444

Tatar

Tatarstan

1251

TTT

0x044a

Telugu

India (Telugu script)

Unicode only

TEL

0x041e

Thai

Thailand

874

THA

0x041f

Turkish

Turkey

1254

TRK

0x0422

Ukrainian

Ukraine

1251

UKR

0x0420

Urdu

Pakistan

1256

URP

0x0843

Uzbek

Uzbekistan (Cyrillic)

1251

UZB

0x0443

Uzbek

Uzbekistan (Latin)

1254

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

Concepts

Code Pages

Other Resources

National Language Support (NLS) Locale Identifiers