Locales

 

A locale is a specific geographical, political or cultural region, or in simplest term - language. Today's operating systems allow the user to set the locale either in a coarse-grained manner (e.g. Japan, or French-speaking portion of Switzerland), or in a fine-grained manner (e.g. personal customization of date/time format).

The web site locale determines which default settings a user sees for formatting date/time and currency values. Generally, your SQL Server (and Windows NT Server that is running on) determines the MASTER language and currency of your business and they will match the language specified in your Web.Config files.

 

CULTURE / LANGUAGE CODE CULTURE CULTURE / LANGUAGE CODE CULTURE CULTURE / LANGUAGE CODE CULTURE
"" (null string) Invariant culture cs Czech de-DE German (Germany)
af Afrikaans cs-CZ Czech (Czech Republic) de-LI German (Liechtenstein)
af-ZA Afrikaans (South Africa) da Danish de-LU German (Luxembourg)
sq Albanian da-DK Danish (Denmark) de-CH German (Switzerland)
sq-AL Albanian (Albania) dv Divehi el Greek
ar Arabic dv-MV Divehi (Maldives) el-GR Greek (Greece)
ar-DZ Arabic (Algeria) nl Dutch gu Gujarati
ar-BH Arabic (Bahrain) nl-BE Dutch (Belgium) gu-IN Gujarati (India)
ar-EG Arabic (Egypt) nl-NL Dutch (Netherlands) he Hebrew
ar-IQ Arabic (Iraq) en English he-IL Hebrew (Israel)
ar-JO Arabic (Jordan) en-AU English (Australia) hi Hindi
ar-KW Arabic (Kuwait) en-BZ English (Belize) hi-IN Hindi (India)
ar-LB Arabic (Lebanon) en-CA English (Canada) hu Hungarian
ar-LY Arabic (Libya) en-029 English (Caribbean) hu-HU Hungarian (Hungary)
ar-MA Arabic (Morocco) en-IE English (Ireland) is Icelandic
ar-OM Arabic (Oman) en-JM English (Jamaica) is-IS Icelandic (Iceland)
ar-QA Arabic (Qatar) en-NZ English (New Zealand) id Indonesian
ar-SA Arabic (Saudi Arabia) en-PH English (Philippines) id-ID Indonesian (Indonesia)
ar-SY Arabic (Syria) en-ZA English (South Africa it Italian
ar-TN Arabic (Tunisia) en-TT English (Trinidad and Tobago) it-IT Italian (Italy)
ar-AE Arabic (U.A.E.) en-GB English (United Kingdom) it-CH Italian (Switzerland)
ar-YE Arabic (Yemen) en-US English (United States) ja Japanese
hy Armenian en-ZW English (Zimbabwe) ja-JP Japanese (Japan)
hy-AM Armenian (Armenia) et Estonian kn Kannada
az Azeri et-EE Estonian (Estonia) kn-IN Kannada (India)
az-Cyrl-AZ Azeri (Azerbaijan, Cyrillic) fo Faroese kk Kazakh
az-Latn-AZ Azeri (Azerbaijan, Latin) fo-FO Faroese (Faroe Islands) kk-KZ Kazakh (Kazakhstan)
eu Basque fa Farsi kok Konkani
eu-ES Basque (Basque) fa-IR Farsi (Iran) kok-IN Konkani (India)
be Belarusian fi Finnish ko Korean
be-BY Belarusian (Belarus) fi-FI Finnish (Finland) ko-KR Korean (Korea)
bg Bulgarian fr French ky Kyrgyz
bg-BG Bulgarian (Bulgaria) fr-BE French (Belgium) ky-KG Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan)
ca Catalan fr-CA French (Canada) lv Latvian
ca-ES Catalan (Catalan) fr-FR French (France) lv-LV Latvian (Latvia)
zh-HK Chinese (Hong Kong SAR, PRC) fr-LU French (Luxembourg) lt Lithuanian
zh-MO Chinese (Macao SAR) fr-MC French (Monaco) lt-LT Lithuanian (Lithuania)
zh-CN Chinese (PRC) fr-CH French (Switzerland) mk Macedonian
zh-Hans Chinese (Simplified) gl Galician mk-MK Macedonian (Macedonia, FYROM)
zh-SG Chinese (Singapore) gl-ES Galician (Spain) ms Malay
zh-TW Chinese (Taiwan) ka Georgian ms-BN Malay (Brunei Darussalam)
zh-Hant Chinese (Traditional) ka-GE Georgian (Georgia) ms-MY Malay (Malaysia)
hr Croatian de German mr Marathi
hr-HR Croatian (Croatia) de-AT German (Austria) mr-IN Marathi (India)
mn Mongolian sv-SE Swedish (Sweden) es-AR Spanish (Argentina)
mn-MN Mongolian (Mongolia) syr Syriac es-BO Spanish (Bolivia)
no Norwegian syr-SY Syriac (Syria) es-CL Spanish (Chile)
nb-NO Norwegian (Bokmål, Norway) ta Tamil es-CO Spanish (Colombia)
nn-NO Norwegian (Nynorsk, Norway) ta-IN Tamil (India) es-CR Spanish (Costa Rica)
pl Polish tt Tatar es-DO Spanish (Dominican Republic)
pl-PL Polish (Poland) tt-RU Tatar (Russia) es-EC Spanish (Ecuador)
pt Portuguese te Telugu es-SV Spanish (El Salvador)
pt-BR Portuguese (Brazil) te-IN Telugu (India) es-GT Spanish (Guatemala)
pt-PT Portuguese (Portugal) th Thai es-HN Spanish (Honduras)
pa Punjabi th-TH Thai (Thailand) es-MX Spanish (Mexico)
pa-IN Punjabi (India) tr Turkish es-NI Spanish (Nicaragua)
ro Romanian tr-TR Turkish (Turkey) es-PA Spanish (Panama)
ro-RO Romanian (Romania) uk Ukrainian es-PY Spanish (Paraguay)
ru Russian uk-UA Ukrainian (Ukraine) es-PE Spanish (Peru)
ru-RU Russian (Russia) ur Urdu es-PR Spanish (Puerto Rico)
sa Sanskrit ur-PK Urdu (Pakistan) es-ES Spanish (Spain)
sa-IN Sanskrit (India) uz Uzbek es-UY Spanish (Uruguay)
sr-Cyrl-CS Serbian (Serbia, Cyrillic) uz-Cyrl-UZ Uzbek (Uzbekistan, Cyrillic) es-VE Spanish (Venezuela)
sr-Latn-CS Serbian (Serbia, Latin) uz-Latn-UZ Uzbek (Uzbekistan, Latin) sw Swahili
sk Slovak vi Vietnamese sw-KE Swahili (Kenya)
sk-SK Slovak (Slovakia) vi-VN Vietnamese (Vietnam) sv Swedish
sl Slovenian sl-SI Slovenian (Slovenia)    
sv-FI Swedish (Finland) es Spanish    
 

 



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  • Wednesday, 24 October 2012