Locale IDs (LCID) Assigned by Microsoft in SharePoint

I'm sure many of you have asked "what is up with the 1033 folder and why does Microsoft use that naming convention in many office and other applications"? Well, 1033 is a Locale ID for English (United States). If you've installed any other language packs or ever cracked into any resource files then you'd know there are a whole bunch of these cryptic codes that are widely used. In an effort to make some sense of them I've put togther a list of the ones I've see commonly used in SharePoint.

The following table lists Locale IDs (LCID).

• Decimal Value


• 1031


• 1036


• 1040


• 3082


• 1043


• 1046


• 1053


• 1044


• 1030


• 1035


• 1041


• 1042


• 1028


• 2052


• 1029


• 1045


• 1032


• 1038


• 1049


• 1055


• 2070


• 1025


• 1037


• 1054

• Locale Description


• German - Germany


• French - France


• Italian - Italy


• Spanish (International Sort)


• Dutch - Netherlands


• Portuguese - Brazil


• Swedish - Sweden


• Norwegian - Bokml


• Danish


• Finnish


• Japanese


• Korean


• Chinese - Taiwan


• Chinese - China


• Czech


• Polish


• Greek


• Hungarian


• Russian


• Turkish


• Portuguese - Portugal


• Arabic - Saudi Arabia


• Hebrew


• Thai

• Short String


• de-de


• fr-fr


• it-it


• nl-nl


•  


• pt-br


• sv-se


• no-no


• da


• fi


• ja


• ko


• zh-tw


• zh-cn


• cs


• pl


• el


• hu


• ru


• tr


• pt-pt


• ar-sa


• he


• th

If you are interested in the complete list of LCIDs used through out the Microsoft suite of applications, check them out on MSDN at:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964664.aspx