Common Desktop Environment: Help System Author's and Programmer's Guide

Language and Territory Names

When choosing a language, you select both a character set and a language and territory name. The language and territory name is used to accommodate variations, such as currency and date format, for a given country or region.

The language and territory names supported by the Help System are listed in the following table. Before you choose a language, refer to your system documentation to identify the languages and character sets supported on your platform.

Table 14-2 Help System Language and Territory Names

Languages 

Language/Territory Name 

Language, Territory 

 

 

 

Standards compliance 

 

 

 

 

POSIX 

Western Europe/Americas 

 

 

 

da_DK 

Danish, Denmark 

 

de_AT 

German, Austria 

 

de_CH 

German, Switzerland 

 

de_DE 

German, Germany 

 

en_AU 

English, Australia 

 

en_CA 

English, Canada 

 

en_DK 

English, Denmark 

 

en_GB 

English, U.K. 

 

en_IE 

English, Ireland 

 

en_MY 

English, Malaysia 

 

 

 

 

en_NZ 

English, New Zealand 

 

en_US 

English, USA 

 

es_AR 

Spanish, Argentina 

 

es_BO 

Spanish, Bolivia 

 

es_CL 

Spanish, Chile 

 

es_CO 

Spanish, Columbia 

 

es_CR 

Spanish, Costa Rica 

 

es_EC 

Spanish, Ecuador 

 

es_ES 

Spanish, Spain 

 

es_GT 

Spanish, Guatemala 

 

es_MX 

Spanish, Mexico 

 

es_PE 

Spanish, Peru 

 

es_UR 

Spanish, Uruguay 

 

es_VE 

Spanish, Venezuela 

 

et_EE 

Estonian, Estonia 

 

fi_FI 

Finnish, Finland 

 

fo_FO 

Faroese, Faeroe Island 

 

fr_BE 

French, Belgium 

 

fr_CA 

French, Canada 

 

fr_CH 

French, Switzerland 

 

fr_FR 

French, France 

 

is_IS 

Icelandic, Iceland 

 

it_CH 

Italian, Switzerland 

 

it_IT 

Italian, Italy 

 

kl_GL 

Greenlandic, Greenland 

 

lt_LT 

Lithuanian, Lithuania 

 

lv_LV 

Latvian, Latvia 

 

nl_BE 

Dutch, Belgium 

 

nl_NL 

Dutch, The Netherlands 

 

no_NO 

Norwegian, Norway 

 

pt_BR 

Portuguese, Brazil 

 

pt_PT 

Portuguese, Portugal 

 

sv_FI 

Swedish, Finland 

 

sv_SE 

Swedish, Sweden 

Central Europe 

 

 

 

cs_CS 

Czech 

 

hr_HR 

Croatian, Croatia 

 

hu_HU 

Hungarian, Hungary 

 

pl_PL 

Polish, Poland 

 

ro_RO 

Rumanian, Romania 

 

sh_YU 

Serbocroatian, Yugoslavia 

 

si_CS 

Slovenian 

 

si_SI 

Slovenian 

 

sk_SK 

Slovak 

Cyrillic 

 

 

 

bg_BG 

Bulgarian, Bulgaria 

 

mk_MK 

Macedonian 

 

ru_RU 

Russian 

 

ru_SU 

Russian 

 

sp_YU 

Serbian, Yugoslavia 

Arabic [No ISO territory name exists for the Arabic-speaking regions of the world. Vendors have supplied their own, which have been adopted for use in the Common Desktop Environment.]

 

 

 

ar_SA 

Arabic 

 

 

 

 

ar_AA 

Arabic 

 

ar_DZ 

Arabic 

 

 

 

 

Hebrew 

 

 

 

iw_IL 

Hebrew, Israel 

Greek 

 

 

 

el_GR 

Greek, Greece 

Turkish 

 

 

 

tr_TR 

Turkish, Turkey 

Asia 

 

 

 

ja_JP 

Japanese, Japan 

 

ko_KR 

Korean, Korea 

 

zh_CN 

Chinese, China 

 

zh_TW 

Chinese, Taiwan 

Thai 

 

 

 

th_TH 

Thai, Thailand