International Language Environments Guide

Supported Locales

The following tables list all the locales supported in the Oracle Solaris environment. The locale names conform to international naming standards.

Table 3–1 Asia Locales


Locale	User Interface	Territory	Code Set	Language Support
`bn_IN.UTF-8`	English (*)	India	UTF-8	Bengali (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`en_IN.UTF-8`	English	India	UTF-8	English (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`en_SG.UTF-8`	English	Singapore	UTF-8	English (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`gu_IN.UTF-8`	English (*)	India	UTF-8	Gujarati (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`hi_IN.UTF-8`	English	India	UTF-8	Hindi (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`id_ID.UTF-8`	English	Indonesia	UTF-8	Indonesian (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`ja`	Japanese	Japan	eucJP [eucJP signifies the Japanese EUC code set. Specification of `ja_JP.eucJP` locale conforms to UI_OSF Japanese Environment Implementation Agreement Version 1.1 and `ja` locale conforms to the traditional specification from the past Solaris releases. ]	Japanese (EUC)
				JIS X 0201-1976
				JIS X 0208-1990
				JIS X 0212-1990
`ja_JP.eucJP`	Japanese	Japan	eucJP	Japanese (EUC)
				JIS X 0201-1976
				JIS X 0208-1990
				JIS X 0212-1990
`ja_JP.PCK`	Japanese	Japan	PCK [PCK is also known as Shift_JIS (SJIS).]	Japanese (PC Kanji)
				JIS X 0201-1976
				JIS X 0208-1990
`ja_JP.UTF-8`	Japanese	Japan	UTF-8	Japanese (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`kn_IN.UTF-8`	English	India	UTF-8	Kannada (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`ko_KR.EUC`	Korean	Korea	1001	Korean (EUC) KS X 1001
`ko_KR.UTF-8`	Korean	Korea	UTF-8	Korean (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`mr_IN.UTF-8`	English	India	UTF-8	Marathi (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`ms_MY.UTF-8`	English	Malaysia	UTF-8	Malay (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`ta_IN.UTF-8`	English	India	UTF-8	Tamil (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`te_IN.UTF-8`	English	India	UTF-8	Telugu (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`th_TH.ISO8859-11`	English (*)	Thailand	ISO8859-11	Thai (ISO8859-11)
`th_TH.UTF-8`	English	Thailand	UTF-8	Thai (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`th_TH.TIS620`	English	Thailand	TIS620.2533	Thai TIS620.2533
`zh_CN.EUC`	Simplified Chinese	PRC	gb2312 [gb2312 signifies Simplified Chinese EUC code set, which contains GB 1988–80 and GB 2312–80.]	Simplified Chinese (EUC) GB2312-1980
`zh_CN.GBK`	Simplified Chinese	PRC	GBK [GBK signifies GB extensions. These extensions include all GB 2312–80 characters and all Unified Han characters of ISO/IEC 10646–1, as well as Japanese Hiragana and Katakana characters. GBK also includes many characters of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean character sets and of ISO/IEC 10646–1.]	Simplified Chinese (GBK)
`zh_CN.GB18030`	Simplified Chinese	PRC	GB18030–2000	Simplified Chinese (GB18030–2000) GB18030–2000
`zh_CN.UTF-8`	Simplified Chinese	PRC	UTF-8	Simplified Chinese (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`zh_HK.BIG5HK`	Traditional Chinese	Hong Kong	Big5+HKSCS	Traditional Chinese (BIG5+HKSCS)
`zh_HK.UTF-8`	Traditional Chinese	Hong Kong	UTF-8	Traditional Chinese (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`zh_SG.UTF-8`	English	Singapore	UTF-8	Chinese (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`zh_TW.EUC`	Traditional Chinese	Taiwan	cns11643	Traditional Chinese (EUC) CNS 11643-1992
`zh_TW.BIG5`	Traditional Chinese	Taiwan	BIG5	Traditional Chinese (BIG5)
`zh_TW.UTF-8`	Traditional Chinese	Taiwan	UTF-8	Traditional Chinese (UTF-8) Unicode4.0

(*) Partially translated

Table 3–2 Australia Locales


Locale	User Interface	Territory	Code Set	Language Support
`en_AU.ISO8859-1`	English	Australia	ISO8859-1	English (Australia)
`en_AU.UTF-8`	English	Australia	UTF-8	English (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`en_NZ.ISO8859-1`	English	New Zealand	ISO8859-1	English (New Zealand)
`en_NZ.UTF-8`	English	New Zealand	UTF-8	English (UTF-8) Unicode4.0

Table 3–3 Central America Locales


Locale	User Interface	Territory	Code Set	Language Support
`es_CR.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	Costa Rica	ISO8859-1	Spanish (Costa Rica)
`es_CR.UTF-8`	Spanish	Costa Rica	UTF-8	Spanish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`es_GT.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	Guatemala	ISO8859-1	Spanish (Guatemala)
`es_GT.UTF-8`	Spanish	Guatemala	UTF-8	Spanish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`es_NI.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	Nicaragua	ISO8859-1	Spanish (Nicaragua)
`es_NI.UTF-8`	Spanish	Nicaragua	UTF-8	Spanish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`es_PA.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	Panama	ISO8859-1	Spanish (Panama)
`es_PA.UTF-8`	Spanish	Panama	UTF-8	Spanish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`es_SV.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	El Salvador	ISO8859-1	Spanish (El Salvador)
`es_SV.UTF-8`	Spanish	El Salvador	UTF-8	Spanish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0

Table 3–4 Central Europe Locales


Locale	User Interface	Territory	Code Set	Language Support
`cs_CZ.ISO8859-2`	English	Czech Republic	ISO8859-2	Czech (Czech Republic)
`cs_CZ.UTF-8@euro`	Czech	Czech Republic	UTF-8	Czech (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`cs_CZ.UTF-8`	Czech	Czech Republic	UTF-8	Czech (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`de_AT.ISO8859-1`	German	Austria	ISO8859-1	German (Austria)
`de_AT.ISO8859-15`	German	Austria	ISO8859-15	German (Austria, ISO8859-15 - Euro)
`de_AT.UTF-8`	German	Austria	UTF-8	German (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`de_CH.ISO8859-1`	German	Switzerland	ISO8859-1	German (Switzerland)
`de_CH.UTF-8`	German	Switzerland	UTF-8	German (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`de_DE.UTF-8`	German	Germany	UTF-8	German (Germany, Unicode4.0)
`de_DE.ISO8859-1`	German	Germany	ISO8859-1	German (Germany)
`de_DE.ISO8859-15`	German	Germany	ISO8859-15	German (Germany, ISO8859-15 - Euro)
`de_LU.UTF-8`	German	Luxembourg	UTF-8	German (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`fr_CH.ISO8859-1`	French	Switzerland	ISO8859-1	French (Switzerland)
`fr_CH.UTF-8`	French	Switzerland	UTF-8	German (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`hu_HU.ISO8859-2`	English	Hungary	ISO8859-2	Hungarian (Hungary)
`hu_HU.UTF-8`	Hungary	Hungarian	UTF-8	Hungarian (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`pl_PL.ISO8859-2`	English	Poland	ISO8859-2	Polish (Poland)
`pl_PL.UTF-8`	English	Poland	UTF-8	Polish (Poland, Unicode4.0)
`sk_SK.ISO8859-2`	English	Slovakia	ISO8859-2	Slovak (Slovakia)
`sk_SK.UTF-8`	English (*)	Slovakia	UTF-8	Slovak (UTF-8) Unicode4.0

(*) Partially translated

Table 3–5 Eastern Europe Locales


Locale	User Interface	Territory	Code Set	Language Support
`bg_BG.ISO8859-5`	English	Bulgaria	ISO8859-5	Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
`bg_BG.UTF-8`	English (*)	Bulgaria	UTF-8	Bulgarian (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`et_EE.ISO8859-15`	English	Estonia	ISO8859-15	Estonian (Estonia)
`et_EE.UTF-8`	Estonian (*)	Estonia	UTF-8	Estonian (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`hr_HR.ISO8859-2`	English	Croatia	ISO8859-2	Croatian (Croatia)
`hr_HR.UTF-8`	Croatian (*)	Croatia	UTF-8	Croatian (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`lt_LT.ISO8859-13`	English	Lithuania	ISO8859-13	Lithuanian (Lithuania)
`lt_LT.UTF-8`	Lithuanian (*)	Lithuania	UTF-8	Lithuanian (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`lv_LV.ISO8859-13`	English	Latvia	ISO8859-13	Latvian (Latvia)
`lv_LV.UTF-8`	Latvian (*)	Latvia	UTF-8	Latvian (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`kk_KZ.UTF-8`	English	Kazakhstan	UTF-8	Kazakh (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`mk_MK.ISO8859-5`	English	Macedonia	ISO8859-5	Macedonian (Macedonia)
`mk_MK.UTF-8`	Macedonian (*)	Macedonia	UTF-8	Macedonian (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`ro_RO.ISO8859-2`	English	Romania	ISO8859-2	Romanian (Romania)
`ro_RO.UTF-8`	Romanian (*)	Romania	UTF-8	Romanian (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`ru_RU.KOI8-R`	English	Russia	KOI8-R	Russian (Russia, KOI8-R)
`ru_RU.ANSI1251`	English	Russia	ansi-1251	Russian (Russia, ANSI 1251)
`ru_RU.ISO8859-5`	English	Russia	ISO8859-5	Russian (Russia)
`ru_RU.UTF-8`	English	Russia	UTF-8	Russian (Russia, Unicode4.0)
`sh_BA.ISO8859-2`@bosnia	English	Bosnia	ISO8859-2	Bosnian (Bosnia)
`sh_BA.UTF-8`	Serbo-Croatian (*)	Bosnia	UTF-8	Bosnian (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`sl_SI.ISO8859-2`	English	Slovenia	ISO8859-2	Slovenian (Slovenia)
`sl_SI.UTF-8`	Slovenian (*)	Slovenia	UTF-8	Slovenian (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`sq_AL.ISO8859-2`	English	Albania	ISO8859-2	Albanian (Albania)
`sq_AL.UTF-8`	Albanian (*)	Albania	UTF-8	Albanian (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`sr_CS.UTF-8`	English (**)	Serbian	UTF-8	Serbia and Montenegro (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`sr_YU.ISO8859-5`	English	Serbia	ISO8859-5	Serbian (Serbia)
`tr_TR.ISO8859-9`	English	Turkey	ISO8859-9	Turkish (Turkey)
`tr_TR.UTF-8`	English	Turkey	UTF-8	Turkish (Turkey, Unicode4.0
`uk_UA.UTF-8`	English	Ukraine	UTF-8	Ukrainian (UTF-8) Unicode4.0

(*) Partially translated

(**) Will be obsolete in the next release

Table 3–6 Middle East Locale


Locale	User Interface	Territory	Code Set	Language Support
`he`	English	Israel	ISO8859-8	Hebrew (Israel)
`he_IL.UTF-8`	English (*)	Israel	UTF-8	(UTF-8) Unicode4.0

(*) Partially translated

Table 3–7 North Africa Locales


Locale	User Interface	Territory	Code Set	Language Support
`ar`	English	Egypt	ISO8859-6	Arabic (Egypt)
`ar_EG.UTF-8`	English	Egypt	UTF-8	Arabic (Egypt)
`ar_SA.UTF-8`	Arabic (*)	Saudi Arabia	UTF-8	Arabic (UTF-8) Unicode4.0

(*) Partially translated

Table 3–8 North America Locales


Locale	User Interface	Territory	Code Set	Language Support
`en_CA.ISO8859-1`	English	Canada	ISO8859-1	English (Canada)
`en_CA.UTF-8`	English	Canada	UTF-8	English (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`en_US.ISO8859-1`	English	USA	ISO8859-1	English (U.S.A.)
`en_US.ISO8859-15`	English	USA	ISO8859-15	English (U.S.A., ISO8859-15 - Euro)
`en_US.UTF-8`	English	USA	UTF-8	English (U.S.A., Unicode4.0)
`es_MX.ISO8859–1`	Spanish	Mexico	ISO8859–1	Spanish (Mexico)
`es_MX.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	Mexico	ISO8859-1	Spanish (ISO8859-1)
`es_MX.UTF-8`	Spanish	Mexico	UTF-8	Spanish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`fr_CA.ISO8859-1`	French	Canada	ISO8859-1	French (Canada)
`fr_CA.UTF-8`	French	Canada	UTF-8	French (UTF-8) Unicode4.0

Table 3–9 Northern Europe Locales


Locale	User Interface	Territory	Code Set	Language Support
`da_DK.ISO8859–1`	English	Denmark	ISO8859–1	Danish (Denmark)
`da_DK.UTF-8`	English (*)	Denmark	UTF-8	Danish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`da_DK.ISO8859–15`	English	Denmark	ISO8859–15	Danish (Denmark, ISO8859–15–Euro)
`fi_FI.ISO8859–1`	English	Finland	ISO8859–1	Finnish, Unicode4.0
`fi_FI.ISO8859–15`	English	Finland	ISO8859–15	Finnish (Finland, ISO8859–15–Euro)
`fi_FI.UTF-8`	English	Finland	UTF-8	Finnish (Finland)
`is_IS.ISO8859–1`	English	Iceland	ISO8859–1	Icelandic (Iceland)
`is_IS.UTF-8`	English (*)	Iceland	UTF-8	Icelandic (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`nb_NO.ISO8859-1@bokmal`	English (*)	Norway	ISO8859-1	Norwegian Bokmel (ISO8859-1)
`nb_NO.UTF-8`	English (*)	Norway	UTF-8	Norwegian (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`nn_NO.ISO8859-1@nynorsk`	English (*)	Norway	ISO8859-1	Norwegian (ISO8859-1)
`nn_NO.UTF-8`	English (*)	Norway	UTF-8	Norwegian Nynorsk (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`no_NO.ISO8859–1@bokmal`	English	Norway	ISO8859–1	Norwegian (Norway-Bokmal)
`no_NO.ISO8859-1@nynorsk`	English	Norway	ISO8859–1	Norwegian (Norway-Nynorsk)
`sv_SE.ISO8859–1`	Swedish	Sweden	ISO8859–1	Swedish (Sweden)
`sv_SE.ISO8859–15`	Swedish	Sweden	ISO8859–15	Swedish (Sweden, ISO8859–15–Euro)
`sv_SE.UTF-8`	Swedish	Sweden	UTF-8	Swedish (Sweden, Unicode4.0)

(*) Partially translated

Table 3–10 South America Locales


Locale	User Interface	Territory	Code Set	Language Support
`es_AR.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	Argentina	ISO8859-1	Spanish (Argentina)
`es_AR.UTF-8`	Spanish	Argentina	UTF-8	Spanish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`es_BO.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	Bolivia	ISO8859-1	Spanish (Bolivia)
`es_BO.UTF-8`	Spanish	Bolivia	UTF-8	Spanish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`es_CL.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	Chile	ISO8859-1	Spanish (Chile)
`es_CL.UTF-8`	Spanish	Chile	UTF-8	Spanish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`es_CO.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	Colombia	ISO8859-1	Spanish (Colombia)
`es_CO.UTF-8`	Spanish	Colombia	UTF-8	Spanish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`es_EC.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	Ecuador	ISO8859-1	Spanish (Ecuador)
`es_EC.UTF-8`	Spanish	Ecuador	UTF-8	Spanish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`es_PE.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	Peru	ISO8859-1	Spanish (Peru)
`es_PE.UTF-8`	Spanish	Peru	UTF-8	Spanish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`es_PY.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	Paraguay	ISO8859-1	Spanish (Paraguay)
`es_PY.UTF-8`	Spanish	Paraguay	UTF-8	Spanish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`es_UY.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	Uruguay	ISO8859-1	Spanish (Uruguay)
`es_UY.UTF-8`	Spanish	Uruguay	UTF-8	Spanish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`es_VE.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	Venezuela	ISO8859-1	Spanish (Venezuela)
`es_VE.UTF-8`	Spanish	Venezuela	UTF-8	Spanish (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`pt_BR.ISO8859-1`	English	Brazil	ISO8859-1	Portuguese (Brazil)
`pt_BR.UTF-8`	English	Brazil	UTF-8	Portuguese (Brazil, Unicode4.0)

Table 3–11 Southern Europe Locales


Locale	User Interface	Territory	Code Set	Language Support
`ca_ES.ISO8859-1`	English	Spain	ISO8859-1	Catalan (Spain)
`ca_ES.ISO8859-15`	English	Spain	ISO8859-15	Catalan (Spain, ISO8859-15 - Euro)
`ca_ES.UTF-8`	English (*)	Spain	UTF-8	Catalan (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`el_CY.UTF-8`	English (*)	Cyprus	UTF-8	Greek (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`el_GR.ISO8859-7`	English	Greece	ISO8859-7	Greek (Greece)
`el_GR.UTF-8`	English (*)	Greece	UTF-8	Greek (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`en_MT.UTF-8`	English	Malta	UTF-8	English (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`es_ES.ISO8859-1`	Spanish	Spain	ISO8859-1	Spanish (Spain)
`es_ES.ISO8859-15`	Spanish	Spain	ISO8859-15	Spanish (Spain, ISO8859-15 - Euro)
`es_ES.UTF-8`	Spanish	Spain	UTF-8	Spanish (Spain, Unicode4.0)
`it_IT.ISO8859-1`	Italian	Italy	ISO8859-1	Italian (Italy)
`it_IT.ISO8859-15`	Italian	Italy	ISO8859-15	Italian (Italy, ISO8859-15 - Euro)
`it_IT.UTF-8`	Italian	Italy	UTF-8	Italian (Italy, Unicode4.0)
`pt_PT.ISO8859-1`	English	Portugal	ISO8859-1	Portuguese (Portugal)
`pt_PT.ISO8859-15`	English	Portugal	ISO8859-15	Portuguese (Portugal, ISO8859-15 - Euro)
`pt_PT.UTF-8`	English (*)	Portugal	UTF-8	Portuguese (UTF-8) Unicode4.0

(*) Partially translated

Table 3–12 Western Europe Locales


Locale	User Interface	Territory	Code Set	Language Support
`en_GB.ISO8859-1`	English	Great Britain	ISO8859-1	English (Great Britain)
`en_GB.UTF-8`	English	United Kingdom	UTF-8	English (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`en_IE.ISO8859-1`	English	Ireland	ISO8859-1	English (Ireland)
`en_IE.ISO8859-15`	English	Ireland	ISO8859-15	English (ISO8859-15
`en_IE.UTF-8`	English	Ireland	UTF-8	English (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`fr_BE.ISO8859-1`	French	Belgium-Walloon	ISO8859-1	French (Belgium-Walloon, Unicode4.0)
`fr_BE.ISO8859-15`	French	Belgium	ISO8859-15	French (ISO8859-15)
`fr_BE.UTF-8`	French	Belgium-Walloon	UTF-8	French (Belgium-Walloon, Unicode4.0)
`fr_FR.ISO8859-1`	French	France	ISO8859-1	French (France)
`fr_FR.UTF-8`	French	France	UTF-8	French (France, Unicode4.0)
`fr_LU.UTF-8`	French	Luxembourg	UTF-8	French (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`nl_BE.ISO8859-1`	English	Belgium-Flemish	ISO8859-1	Dutch (Belgium-Flemish)
`nl_BE.ISO8859-15`	Belgian (*)	Belgium	ISO8859-15	Dutch (ISO8859-15)
`nl_BE.UTF-8`	Belgian (*)	Belgium	UTF-8	Dutch (UTF-8) Unicode4.0
`nl_NL.ISO8859-1`	English	Netherlands	ISO8859-1	Dutch (Netherlands)
`nl_NL.ISO8859-15`	Belgian (*)	Netherlands	ISO8859-15	Dutch (ISO8859-15)
`nl_NL.UTF-8`	Belgian (*)	Netherlands	UTF-8	Dutch (UTF-8) Unicode4.0

(*) Partially translated

Table 3–13 Southern Africa Locales


Locale	User Interface	Territory	Code Set	Language Support
`af_ZA.UTF-8`	English	South Africa	UTF-8	Afrikaans (UTF-8) Unicode4.0