International Language Environments Guide

Asian Supported Locales

The following table provides the a summary of Asian supported locales.

Table 4–1 Summary of Asian Locales

Language 

Locale Name 

Description 

Supported Character Set 

Korean 

ko

ko.UTF-8

Korean (EUC) 

Korean (UTF-8) 

KS X 1001 

KS X 1005–1 

 

 

 

 

Simplified Chinese 

zh_CN.EUC

zh_CN.GBK

zh_CN.GB18030

zh_CN.UTF-8

Simplified Chinese (EUC) 

Simplified Chinese (GBK) 

Simplified Chinese (GB18030–2000) 

Simplified Chinese (UTF-8) 

GB 2312-1980 

GBK 

GB18030–2000 

Unicode 3.1 

 

 

 

 

Traditional Chinese 

zh_TW.EUC

zh_TW.UTF-8

zh_TW.BIG5

zh_HK.BIG5HK

zh_HK.UTF—8

Traditional Chinese (EUC)  

Traditional Chinese (UTF-8) 

Traditional Chinese (BIG5) 

Traditional Chinese (BIG5+HKSCS) 

Traditional Chinese (UTF-8) 

CNS 11643 –1992 

Unicode 3.1 

BIG5  

BIG5+HKSCS 

Unicode 3.1 

Japanese 

ja

ja_JP.eucJP

ja_JP.PCK

ja_JP.UTF-8

Japanese (EUC) 

Japanese (EUC) 

Japanese (PCK)  

Japanese (UTF-8) 

JIS [JIS X 0201-1976, JIS X 0208-1990 and JIS X 0212-1990]

JIS [JIS X 0201–1976 and JIS X 0208–1990]

Unicode3.1 

Thai 

th_TH.TIS620

th_TH.UTF-8

th_TH.ISO8859-11

Thai (TIS620.2533) 

Thai (UTF-8) 

Thai(ISO8859-11)

TIS620.2533 

Unicode 3.1 

ISO8859-11

Hindi 

hi_IN.UTF-8

Hindi (UTF-8) 

Unicode 3.1