Windows uses a Locale Identifier (LCID) to determine the language and culture to use when displaying information to a user. The users LCID is picked up from his/her regional settings within windows or from the language settings for the browser. The application then displays resources, number and date formatting according to the the local. This post lists a table of LCID's, the short name and full name of each locale.
All products, such as SharePoint, SQL, .NET all use this to assist with formatting. As this post is focusing on LCIDS in SharePoint, there are several folders within the 12 hive that allow you to globalise and localise your application.
\BIN\LCID
SharePoint deploys local specific dll's for custom messages used within the SharePoint framework. You will typically not be updating this folder with your own DLL's.
\HCCab\LCID
You are able to create and deploy your own help files that integrate into the SharePoint help system. Doing this is not the simplest of tasks and does require a very specific way to deploy your help files.
\Help\LCID
This folder contains a compiled help file (.chm) that is used when installing SharePoint. There is no need for you to change this folder.
\TEMPLATE\LCID
SharePoint is an international product and supports globalisation. You are able to localise your site to any supported language. The LCID is the local identifier for a language and is commonly used through windows programming.
\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\LCID
The layouts folder contains application pages and there is a LCID folder for each language. This LCID folder contains localised java scripts, cascading style sheets and images used in the application page.
\TEMPLATE\SQL\LCID
Localised default script and data used when the SharePoint provisioning engine creates a database.
\ISAPI\HELP\LCID
Help content for the SharePoint web services.
Table of locals
|
Locale Description
|
Short String
|
Decimal Value
|
|
Afrikaans
|
af
|
1078
|
|
Albanian
|
sq
|
1052
|
|
Arabic - United Arab Emirates
|
ar-ae
|
14337
|
|
Arabic - Bahrain
|
ar-bh
|
15361
|
|
Arabic - Algeria
|
ar-dz
|
5121
|
|
Arabic - Egypt
|
ar-eg
|
3073
|
|
Arabic - Iraq
|
ar-iq
|
2049
|
|
Arabic - Jordan
|
ar-jo
|
11265
|
|
Arabic - Kuwait
|
ar-kw
|
13313
|
|
Arabic - Lebanon
|
ar-lb
|
12289
|
|
Arabic - Libya
|
ar-ly
|
4097
|
|
Arabic - Morocco
|
ar-ma
|
6145
|
|
Arabic - Oman
|
ar-om
|
8193
|
|
Arabic - Qatar
|
ar-qa
|
16385
|
|
Arabic - Saudi Arabia
|
ar-sa
|
1025
|
|
Arabic - Syria
|
ar-sy
|
10241
|
|
Arabic - Tunisia
|
ar-tn
|
7169
|
|
Arabic - Yemen
|
ar-ye
|
9217
|
|
Armenian
|
hy
|
1067
|
|
Azeri - Latin
|
az-az
|
1068
|
|
Azeri - Cyrillic
|
az-az
|
2092
|
|
Basque
|
eu
|
1069
|
|
Belarusian
|
be
|
1059
|
|
Bulgarian
|
bg
|
1026
|
|
Catalan
|
ca
|
1027
|
|
Chinese - China
|
zh-cn
|
2052
|
|
Chinese - Hong Kong SAR
|
zh-hk
|
3076
|
|
Chinese - Macau SAR
|
zh-mo
|
5124
|
|
Chinese - Singapore
|
zh-sg
|
4100
|
|
Chinese - Taiwan
|
zh-tw
|
1028
|
|
Croatian
|
hr
|
1050
|
|
Czech
|
cs
|
1029
|
|
Danish
|
da
|
1030
|
|
Dutch - The Netherlands
|
nl-nl
|
1043
|
|
Dutch - Belgium
|
nl-be
|
2067
|
|
English - Australia
|
en-au
|
3081
|
|
English - Belize
|
en-bz
|
10249
|
|
English - Canada
|
en-ca
|
4105
|
|
English - Caribbean
|
en-cb
|
9225
|
|
English - Ireland
|
en-ie
|
6153
|
|
English - Jamaica
|
en-jm
|
8201
|
|
English - New Zealand
|
en-nz
|
5129
|
|
English - Phillippines
|
en-ph
|
13321
|
|
English - South Africa
|
en-za
|
7177
|
|
English - Trinidad
|
en-tt
|
11273
|
|
English - United Kingdom
|
en-gb
|
2057
|
|
English - United States
|
en-us
|
1033
|
|
Estonian
|
et
|
1061
|
|
Farsi
|
fa
|
1065
|
|
Finnish
|
fi
|
1035
|
|
Faroese
|
fo
|
1080
|
|
French - France
|
fr-fr
|
1036
|
|
French - Belgium
|
fr-be
|
2060
|
|
French - Canada
|
fr-ca
|
3084
|
|
French - Luxembourg
|
fr-lu
|
5132
|
|
French - Switzerland
|
fr-ch
|
4108
|
|
Gaelic - Ireland
|
gd-ie
|
2108
|
|
Gaelic - Scotland
|
gd
|
1084
|
|
German - Germany
|
de-de
|
1031
|
|
German - Austria
|
de-at
|
3079
|
|
German - Liechtenstein
|
de-li
|
5127
|
|
German - Luxembourg
|
de-lu
|
4103
|
|
German - Switzerland
|
de-ch
|
2055
|
|
Greek
|
el
|
1032
|
|
Hebrew
|
he
|
1037
|
|
Hindi
|
hi
|
1081
|
|
Hungarian
|
hu
|
1038
|
|
Icelandic
|
is
|
1039
|
|
Indonesian
|
id
|
1057
|
|
Italian - Italy
|
it-it
|
1040
|
|
Italian - Switzerland
|
it-ch
|
2064
|
|
Japanese
|
ja
|
1041
|
|
Korean
|
ko
|
1042
|
|
Latvian
|
lv
|
1062
|
|
Lithuanian
|
lt
|
1063
|
|
FYRO Macedonian
|
mk
|
1071
|
|
Malay - Malaysia
|
ms-my
|
1086
|
|
Malay – Brunei
|
ms-bn
|
2110
|
|
Maltese
|
mt
|
1082
|
|
Marathi
|
mr
|
1102
|
|
Norwegian - Bokmål
|
no-no
|
1044
|
|
Norwegian - Nynorsk
|
no-no
|
2068
|
|
Polish
|
pl
|
1045
|
|
Portuguese - Portugal
|
pt-pt
|
2070
|
|
Portuguese - Brazil
|
pt-br
|
1046
|
|
Raeto-Romance
|
rm
|
1047
|
|
Romanian - Romania
|
ro
|
1048
|
|
Romanian - Republic of Moldova
|
ro-mo
|
2072
|
|
Russian
|
ru
|
1049
|
|
Russian - Republic of Moldova
|
ru-mo
|
2073
|
|
Sanskrit
|
sa
|
1103
|
|
Serbian - Cyrillic
|
sr-sp
|
3098
|
|
Serbian - Latin
|
sr-sp
|
2074
|
|
Setsuana
|
tn
|
1074
|
|
Slovenian
|
sl
|
1060
|
|
Slovak
|
sk
|
1051
|
|
Sorbian
|
sb
|
1070
|
|
Spanish - Spain
|
es-es
|
1034
|
|
Spanish - Argentina
|
es-ar
|
11274
|
|
Spanish - Bolivia
|
es-bo
|
16394
|
|
Spanish - Chile
|
es-cl
|
13322
|
|
Spanish - Colombia
|
es-co
|
9226
|
|
Spanish - Costa Rica
|
es-cr
|
5130
|
|
Spanish - Dominican Republic
|
es-do
|
7178
|
|
Spanish - Ecuador
|
es-ec
|
12298
|
|
Spanish - Guatemala
|
es-gt
|
4106
|
|
Spanish - Honduras
|
es-hn
|
18442
|
|
Spanish - Mexico
|
es-mx
|
2058
|
|
Spanish - Nicaragua
|
es-ni
|
19466
|
|
Spanish - Panama
|
es-pa
|
6154
|
|
Spanish - Peru
|
es-pe
|
10250
|
|
Spanish - Puerto Rico
|
es-pr
|
20490
|
|
Spanish - Paraguay
|
es-py
|
15370
|
|
Spanish - El Salvador
|
es-sv
|
17418
|
|
Spanish - Uruguay
|
es-uy
|
14346
|
|
Spanish - Venezuela
|
es-ve
|
8202
|
|
Sutu
|
sx
|
1072
|
|
Swahili
|
sw
|
1089
|
|
Swedish - Sweden
|
sv-se
|
1053
|
|
Swedish - Finland
|
sv-fi
|
2077
|
|
Tamil
|
ta
|
1097
|
|
Tatar
|
tt
|
1092
|
|
Thai
|
th
|
1054
|
|
Turkish
|
tr
|
1055
|
|
Tsonga
|
ts
|
1073
|
|
Ukrainian
|
uk
|
1058
|
|
Urdu
|
ur
|
1056
|
|
Uzbek - Cyrillic
|
uz-uz
|
2115
|
|
Uzbek – Latin
|
uz-uz
|
1091
|
|
Vietnamese
|
vi
|
1066
|
|
Xhosa
|
xh
|
1076
|
|
Yiddish
|
yi
|
1085
|
|
Zulu
|
zu
|
1077
|
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