ANSI Code Page for Windows System Locale with Identifier Constants and Strings
In Windows operating system, system locale is the language that is used to display the text in menus and dialog boxes for programs that do not use Unicode. By changing system language locale which is normally set to same language as Windows itself to application’s native language, the garbled and gibberish text displayed can be shown properly if the correct locale code page is selected.
However, Windows just list the locale or display language available in common human term such as English (United States), English (Australia), Chinese (Taiwan), Chinese (PRC), Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.), Arabic (Egypt), Arabic (Iraq), Arabic (U.A.E), Hebrew (Israel), and etc. There is no other information especially ANSI codepage which programmers or advanced users may find useful when attempting to convert between ANSI non-Unicode language codepage or try to get foreign language to display readable characters properly in music player playlists without resorting to Microsoft AppLocale (Guide: how to install AppLocale in Vista).
The following table provides by Microsoft listed all supported locale identifier in Windows 95, 98, Me, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and possibly most future releases. The table includes the corresponding locale, the locale name, an associated script, and the default ANSI code page for the locale.
| Locale identifier | Locale | Locale name | Script tag | ANSI code page |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0×0436 | Afrikaans (South Africa) | af-ZA | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×041c | Albanian (Albania) | sq-AL | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0484 | Windows Vista and later: Alsatian (France) | gsw-FR | ||
| 0×045e | Windows Vista and later: Amharic (Ethiopia) | am-ET | Unicode only | |
| 0×1401 | Arabic (Algeria) | ar-DZ | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×3c01 | Arabic (Bahrain) | ar-BH | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×0c01 | Arabic (Egypt) | ar-EG | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×0801 | Arabic (Iraq) | ar-IQ | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×2c01 | Arabic (Jordan) | ar-JO | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×3401 | Arabic (Kuwait) | ar-KW | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×3001 | Arabic (Lebanon) | ar-LB | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×1001 | Arabic (Libya) | ar-LY | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×1801 | Arabic (Morocco) | ar-MA | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×2001 | Arabic (Oman) | ar-OM | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×4001 | Arabic (Qatar) | ar-QA | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×0401 | Arabic (Saudi Arabia) | ar-SA | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×2801 | Arabic (Syria) | ar-SY | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×1c01 | Arabic (Tunisia) | ar-TN | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×3801 | Arabic (U.A.E.) | ar-AE | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×2401 | Arabic (Yemen) | ar-YE | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×042b | Windows 2000 and later: Armenian (Armenia) | hy-AM | Armn | Unicode only |
| 0×044d | Windows Vista and later: Assamese (India) | as-IN | Unicode only | |
| 0×082c | Azeri (Azerbaijan, Cyrillic) | az-Cyrl-AZ | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×042c | Azeri (Azerbaijan, Latin) | az-Latn-AZ | Latn | 1254 |
| 0×046d | Windows Vista and later: Bashkir (Russia) | ba-RU | ||
| 0×042d | Basque (Basque) | eu-ES | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0423 | Belarusian (Belarus) | be-BY | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×0445 | Windows XP SP2 and later: Bengali (India) | bn-IN | Beng | Unicode only |
| 0×201a | Windows XP SP2 and later (downloadable); Windows Vista and later: Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyrillic) | bs-Cyrl-BA | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×141a | Windows XP SP2 and later: Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latin) | bs-Latn-BA | Latn | 1250 |
| 0×047e | Breton (France) | br-FR | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0402 | Bulgarian (Bulgaria) | bg-BG | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×0455 | Not supported: Burmese | |||
| 0×0403 | Catalan (Catalan) | ca-ES | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0c04 | Chinese (Hong Kong SAR, PRC) | zh-HK | Hant | 950 |
| 0×1404 | Windows 98/Me, Windows XP and later: Chinese (Macao SAR) | zh-MO | Hant | 950 |
| 0×0804 | Chinese (PRC) | zh-CN | Hans | 936 |
| 0×1004 | Chinese (Singapore) | zh-SG | Hans | 936 |
| 0×0404 | Chinese (Taiwan) | zh-TW | Hant | 950 |
| Windows Vista and later: Corsican (France) | co-FR | |||
| 0×101a | Windows XP SP2 and later: Croatian (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latin) | hr-BA | Latn | 1250 |
| 0×041a | Croatian (Croatia) | hr-HR | Latn | 1250 |
| 0×0405 | Czech (Czech Republic) | cs-CZ | Latn | 1250 |
| 0×0406 | Danish (Denmark) | da-DK | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×048c | Windows XP and later: Dari (Afghanistan) | gbz-AF | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×0465 | Windows XP and later: Divehi (Maldives) | dv-MV | Thaa | Unicode only |
| 0×0813 | Dutch (Belgium) | nl-BE | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0413 | Dutch (Netherlands) | nl-NL | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0c09 | English (Australia) | en-AU | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×2809 | English (Belize) | en-BZ | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×1009 | English (Canada) | en-CA | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×2409 | English (Caribbean) | en-029 | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×4009 | Windows Vista and later: English (India) | en-IN | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×1809 | English (Ireland) | en-IE | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×2009 | English (Jamaica) | en-JM | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×4409 | Windows Vista and later: English (Malaysia) | en-MY | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×1409 | English (New Zealand) | en-NZ | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×3409 | Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000 and later: English (Philippines) | en-PH | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×4809 | Windows Vista and later: English (Singapore) | en-SG | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×1c09 | English (South Africa) | en-ZA | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×2c09 | English (Trinidad and Tobago) | en-TT | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0809 | English (United Kingdom) | en-GB | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0409 | English (United States) | en-US | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×3009 | Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000 and later: English (Zimbabwe) | en-ZW | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0425 | Estonian (Estonia) | et-EE | Latn | 1257 |
| 0×0438 | Faroese (Faroe Islands) | fo-FO | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0464 | Windows XP SP2 and later (downloadable); Windows Vista and later: Filipino (Philippines) | fil-PH | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×040b | Finnish (Finland) | fi-FI | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×080c | French (Belgium) | fr-BE | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0c0c | French (Canada) | fr-CA | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×040c | French (France) | fr-FR | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×140c | French (Luxembourg) | fr-LU | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×180c | French (Monaco) | fr-MC | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×100c | French (Switzerland) | fr-CH | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0462 | Windows XP SP2 and later (downloadable); Windows Vista and later: Frisian (Netherlands) | fy-NL | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0456 | Windows XP and later: Galician (Spain) | gl-ES | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0437 | Windows 2000 and later: Georgian (Georgia) | ka-GE | Geor | Unicode only |
| 0×0c07 | German (Austria) | de-AT | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0407 | German (Germany) | de-DE | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×1407 | German (Liechtenstein) | de-LI | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×1007 | German (Luxembourg) | de-LU | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0807 | German (Switzerland) | de-CH | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0408 | Greek (Greece) | el-GR | Grek | 1253 |
| 0×046f | Windows Vista and later: Greenlandic (Greenland) | kl-GL | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0447 | Windows XP and later: Gujarati (India) | gu-IN | Gujr | Unicode only |
| 0×0468 | Windows Vista and later: Hausa (Nigeria, Latin) | ha-Latn-NG | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×040d | Hebrew (Israel) | he-IL | Hebr | 1255 |
| 0×0439 | Windows 2000 and later: Hindi (India) | hi-IN | Deva | Unicode only |
| 0×040e | Hungarian (Hungary) | hu-HU | Latn | 1250 |
| 0×040f | Icelandic (Iceland) | is-IS | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0470 | Igbo (Nigeria) | ig-NG | ||
| 0×0421 | Indonesian (Indonesia) | id-ID | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×085d | Windows XP and later: Inuktitut (Canada, Latin) | iu-Latn-CA | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×045d | Windows XP SP2 and later (downloadable); Windows Vista and later: Inuktitut (Canada, Syllabics) | iu-Cans-CA | Cans | Unicode only |
| 0×083c | Windows XP SP2 and later (downloadable); Windows Vista and later: Irish (Ireland) | ga-IE | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0410 | Italian (Italy) | it-IT | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0810 | Italian (Switzerland) | it-CH | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0411 | Japanese (Japan) | ja-JP | Hani;Hira;Kana | 932 |
| 0×044b | Windows XP and later: Kannada (India) | kn-IN | Knda | Unicode only |
| 0×043f | Windows 2000 and later: Kazakh (Kazakhstan) | kk-KZ | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×0453 | Windows Vista and later: Khmer (Cambodia) | kh-KH | Khmr | Unicode only |
| 0×0486 | Windows Vista and later: K’iche (Guatemala) | qut-GT | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0487 | Windows Vista and later: Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) | rw-RW | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0457 | Windows 2000 and later: Konkani (India) | kok-IN | Deva | Unicode only |
| 0×0812 | Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 only: Korean (Johab) | |||
| 0×0412 | Korean (Korea) | ko-KR | Hang;Hani | 949 |
| 0×0440 | Windows XP and later: Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan) | ky-KG | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×0454 | Windows Vista and later: Lao (Lao PDR) | lo-LA | Laoo | Unicode only |
| 0×0426 | Latvian (Latvia) | lv-LV | Latn | 1257 |
| 0×0427 | Lithuanian (Lithuania) | lt-LT | Latn | 1257 |
| 0×082e | Windows Vista and later: Lower Sorbian (Germany) | dsb-DE | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×046e | Windows XP SP2 and later (downloadable); Windows Vista and later: Luxembourgish (Luxembourg) | lb-LU | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×042f | Windows 2000 and later: Macedonian (Macedonia, FYROM) | mk-MK | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×083e | Windows 2000 and later: Malay (Brunei Darussalam) | ms-BN | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×043e | Windows 2000 and later: Malay (Malaysia) | ms-MY | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×044c | Windows XP SP2 and later: Malayalam (India) | ml-IN | Mlym | Unicode only |
| 0×043a | Windows XP SP2 and later: Maltese (Malta) | mt-MT | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0481 | Windows XP SP2 and later: Maori (New Zealand) | mi-NZ | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×047a | Windows XP SP2 and later (downloadable); Windows Vista and later: Mapudungun (Chile) | arn-CL | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×044e | Windows 2000 and later: Marathi (India) | mr-IN | Deva | Unicode only |
| 0×047c | Windows XP SP2 and later (downloadable); Windows Vista and later: Mohawk (Canada) | moh-CA | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0450 | Windows XP and later: Mongolian (Mongolia) | mn-Cyrl-MN | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×0850 | Windows Vista and later: Mongolian (PRC) | mn-Mong-CN | Mong | Unicode only |
| Nepali (India) | ne-IN | __ | Unicode only | |
| 0×0461 | Windows XP SP2 and later (downloadable); Windows Vista and later: Nepali (Nepal) | ne-NP | Deva | Unicode only |
| 0×0414 | Norwegian (Bokmål, Norway) | nb-NO | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0814 | Norwegian (Nynorsk, Norway) | nn-NO | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0482 | Occitan (France) | oc-FR | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0448 | Oriya (India) | or-IN | Orya | Unicode only |
| 0×0463 | Windows XP SP2 and later (downloadable); Windows Vista and later: Pashto (Afghanistan) | ps-AF | ||
| 0×0429 | Persian (Iran) | fa-IR | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×0415 | Polish (Poland) | pl-PL | Latn | 1250 |
| 0×0416 | Portuguese (Brazil) | pt-BR | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0816 | Portuguese (Portugal) | pt-PT | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0446 | Windows XP and later: Punjabi (India) | pa-IN | Guru | Unicode only |
| 0×046b | Windows XP SP2 and later: Quechua (Bolivia) | quz-BO | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×086b | Windows XP SP2 and later: Quechua (Ecuador) | quz-EC | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0c6b | Windows XP SP2 and later: Quechua (Peru) | quz-PE | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0418 | Romanian (Romania) | ro-RO | Latn | 1250 |
| 0×0417 | Windows XP SP2 and later (downloadable); Windows Vista and later: Romansh (Switzerland) | rm-CH | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0419 | Russian (Russia) | ru-RU | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×243b | Windows XP SP2 and later: Sami (Inari, Finland) | smn-FI | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×103b | Windows XP SP2 and later: Sami (Lule, Norway) | smj-NO | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×143b | Windows XP SP2 and later: Sami (Lule, Sweden) | smj-SE | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0c3b | Windows XP SP2 and later: Sami (Northern, Finland) | se-FI | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×043b | Windows XP SP2 and later: Sami (Northern, Norway) | se-NO | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×083b | Windows XP SP2 and later: Sami (Northern, Sweden) | se-SE | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×203b | Windows XP SP2 and later: Sami (Skolt, Finland) | sms-FI | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×183b | Windows XP SP2 and later: Sami (Southern, Norway) | sma-NO | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×1c3b | Windows XP SP2 and later: Sami (Southern, Sweden) | sma-SE | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×044f | Windows 2000 and later: Sanskrit (India) | sa-IN | Deva | Unicode only |
| 0×1c1a | Windows XP SP2 and later: Serbian (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyrillic) | sr-Cyrl-BA | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×181a | Windows XP SP2 and later: Serbian (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latin) | sr-Latn-BA | Latn | 1250 |
| 0×0c1a | Serbian (Serbia, Cyrillic) | sr-Cyrl-CS | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×081a | Serbian (Serbia, Latin) | sr-Latn-CS | Latn | 1250 |
| 0×046c | Windows XP SP2 and later: Sesotho sa Leboa/Northern Sotho (South Africa) | ns-ZA | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0432 | Windows XP SP2 and later: Setswana/Tswana (South Africa) | tn-ZA | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×045b | Windows Vista and later: Sinhala (Sri Lanka) | si-LK | Sinh | Unicode only |
| 0×041b | Slovak (Slovakia) | sk-SK | Latn | 1250 |
| 0×0424 | Slovenian (Slovenia) | sl-SI | Latn | 1250 |
| 0×2c0a | Spanish (Argentina) | es-AR | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×400a | Spanish (Bolivia) | es-BO | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×340a | Spanish (Chile) | es-CL | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×240a | Spanish (Colombia) | es-CO | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×140a | Spanish (Costa Rica) | es-CR | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×1c0a | Spanish (Dominican Republic) | es-DO | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×300a | Spanish (Ecuador) | es-EC | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×440a | Spanish (El Salvador) | es-SV | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×100a | Spanish (Guatemala) | es-GT | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×480a | Spanish (Honduras) | es-HN | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×080a | Spanish (Mexico) | es-MX | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×4c0a | Spanish (Nicaragua) | es-NI | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×180a | Spanish (Panama) | es-PA | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×3c0a | Spanish (Paraguay) | es-PY | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×280a | Spanish (Peru) | es-PE | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×500a | Spanish (Puerto Rico) | es-PR | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0c0a | Spanish (Spain) | es-ES | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×040a | Spanish (Spain, Traditional Sort) | es-ES_tradnl | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×540a | Windows Vista and later: Spanish (United States) | es-US | ||
| 0×380a | Spanish (Uruguay) | es-UY | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×200a | Spanish (Venezuela) | es-VE | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0430 | Not supported: Sutu | |||
| 0×0441 | Windows 2000 and later: Swahili (Kenya) | sw-KE | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×081d | Swedish (Finland) | sv-FI | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×041d | Swedish (Sweden) | sv-SE | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×045a | Windows XP and later: Syriac (Syria) | syr-SY | Syrc | Unicode only |
| 0×0428 | Windows Vista and later: Tajik (Tajikistan) | tg-Cyrl-TJ | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×085f | Windows Vista and later: Tamazight (Algeria, Latin) | tmz-Latn-DZ | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0449 | Windows 2000 and later: Tamil (India) | ta-IN | Taml | Unicode only |
| 0×0444 | Windows XP and later: Tatar (Russia) | tt-RU | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×044a | Windows XP and later: Telugu (India) | te-IN | Telu | Unicode only |
| 0×041e | Thai (Thailand) | th-TH | Thai | 874 |
| 0×0851 | Windows Vista and later: Tibetan (Bhutan) | bo-BT | Tibt | Unicode only |
| 0×0451 | Windows Vista and later: Tibetan (PRC) | bo-CN | Tibt | Unicode only |
| 0×041f | Turkish (Turkey) | tr-TR | Latn | 1254 |
| 0×0442 | Windows Vista and later: Turkmen (Turkmenistan) | tk-TM | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×0480 | Windows Vista and later: Uighur (PRC) | ug-CN | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×0422 | Ukrainian (Ukraine) | uk-UA | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×042e | Windows Vista and later: Upper Sorbian (Germany) | wen-DE | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0820 | Urdu (India) | tr-IN | ||
| 0×0420 | Windows 98/Me, Windows 2000 and later: Urdu (Pakistan) | ur-PK | Arab | 1256 |
| 0×0843 | Windows 2000 and later: Uzbek (Uzbekistan, Cyrillic) | uz-Cyrl-UZ | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×0443 | Windows 2000 and later: Uzbek (Uzbekistan, Latin) | uz-Latn-UZ | Latn | 1254 |
| 0×042a | Windows 98/Me, Windows NT 4.0 and later: Vietnamese (Vietnam) | vi-VN | Latn | 1258 |
| 0×0452 | Windows XP SP2 and later: Welsh (United Kingdom) | cy-GB | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0488 | Windows Vista and later: Wolof (Senegal) | wo-SN | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0434 | Windows XP SP2 and later: Xhosa/isiXhosa (South Africa) | xh-ZA | Latn | 1252 |
| 0×0485 | Windows Vista and later: Yakut (Russia) | sah-RU | Cyrl | 1251 |
| 0×0478 | Windows Vista and later: Yi (PRC) | ii-CN | Yiii | Unicode only |
| 0×046a | Windows Vista and later: Yoruba (Nigeria) | yo-NG | ||
| 0×0435 | Windows XP SP2 and later: Zulu/isiZulu (South Africa) | zu-ZA | Latn | 1252 |
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