Language Identifiers and Locales
Applications
can use the MAKELANGID
macro to create a language identifier.
The first
release of Windows NT supports 35 sublanguages/locales.
The following
28 sublanguages/locales use the Latin 1 script:
Latin 1 Script
|
Identifier |
Language |
Sublanguage/Locale |
Language
Code |
|
0x0406 |
Danish |
Danish |
DAN |
|
0x0413 |
Dutch |
Dutch
(Standard) |
NLD |
|
0x0813 |
Dutch |
Belgian
(Flemish) |
NLB |
|
0x0409 |
English |
American |
ENU |
|
0x0809 |
English |
British |
ENG |
|
0x0c09 |
English |
Australian |
ENA |
|
0x1009 |
English |
Canadian |
ENC |
|
0x1409 |
English |
New Zealand |
ENZ |
|
0x1809 |
English |
Ireland |
ENI |
|
0x040b |
Finnish |
Finnish |
FIN |
|
0x040c |
French |
French
(Standard) |
FRA |
|
0x080c |
French |
Belgian |
FRB |
|
0x0c0c |
French |
Canadian |
FRC |
|
0x100c |
French |
Swiss |
FRS |
|
0x0407 |
German |
German
(Standard) |
DEU |
|
0x0807 |
German |
Swiss |
DES |
|
0x0c07 |
German |
Austrian |
DEA |
|
0x040f |
Icelandic |
Icelandic |
ISL |
|
0x0410 |
Italian |
Italian
(Standard) |
ITA |
|
0x0810 |
Italian |
Swiss |
ITS |
|
0x0414 |
Norwegian |
Norwegian
(Bokmal) |
NOR |
|
0x0814 |
Norwegian |
Norwegian
(Nynorsk) |
NON |
|
0x0416 |
Portuguese |
Portuguese
(Brazilian) |
PTB |
|
0x0816 |
Portuguese |
Portuguese
(Standard) |
PTG |
|
0x041D |
Swedish |
Swedish |
SVE |
|
0x040a |
Spanish |
Spanish
(Standard/Traditional) |
ESP |
|
0x080a |
Spanish |
Mexican |
ESM |
|
0x0c0a |
Spanish |
Spanish
(Modern) |
ESN |
The following
5 sublanguages/locales use the Latin 2 script:
Latin 2 Script
|
Identifier |
Sublanguage/Locale |
Language
Code |
|
0x041f |
Turkish |
TRK |
|
0x0415 |
Polish |
PLK |
|
0x0405 |
Czech |
CSY |
|
0x041b |
Slovak |
SKY |
|
0x040e |
Hungarian |
HUN |
The following
sublanguage/locale uses the Cyrillic script:
Cyrillic Script
|
Identifier |
Sublanguage/Locale |
Language
Code |
|
0x0419 |
Russian |
RUS |
The following
sublanguage/locale uses an other script:
Other Script
|
Identifier |
Sublanguage/Locale |
Language
Code |
|
0x0408 |
Greek |
ELL |
The following
special identifiers are also defined:
Special Identifiers
|
Identifier |
Sublanguage/Locale |
|
0x0000 |
Language-Neutral
|
|
0x0400 |
Process
Default Language |