Language ID

Language ID

Language ID and Code Pages

• Language ID and Code Page are different concept.
• The language determines the text and data formatting conventions.
• A code page is a character set, which can include numbers, punctuation marks, and other glyphs.
• Different languages might use different code pages.
• Different languages can use the same code pages: For example, the ANSI code page 1252 is used for English and most European languages.

Language Identifiers

A language identifier is constructed using the MAKELANGID macro.

+-------------------------+-------------------------+
|     SubLanguage ID      |   Primary Language ID   |
+-------------------------+-------------------------+
15                    10  9                         0   bit
+-------------------------+-------------------------+

Language ID in resource file

LANGUAGE Primary Language ID, SubLanguage ID   

Sample:

LANGUAGE LANG_CHINESE, SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED

Language ID Constants

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Common Use Language ID

ID	Dec.	Primary language	Prim. lang. symbol	Sublanguage	Sublang. symbol	Code Page
0x0804	2052	Chinese (zh)	LANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED	Simplified (Hans)	SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED	936
0x0404	1028	Chinese (zh)	LANG_CHINESE_TRADITIONAL	Traditional (Hant)	SUBLANG_CHINESE_TRADITIONAL	950
0x0405	1029	Czech (cs)	LANG_CZECH	Czech Republic (CZ)	SUBLANG_CZECH_CZECH_REPUBLIC	1250
0x0406	1030	Danish (da)	LANG_DANISH	Denmark (DK)	SUBLANG_DANISH_DENMARK	1252
0x0413	1043	Dutch (nl)	LANG_DUTCH	Netherlands (NL)	SUBLANG_DUTCH	1252
0x0409	1033	English (en)	LANG_ENGLISH	United States (US)	SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US	1252
0x040B	1035	Finnish (fi)	LANG_FINNISH	Finland (FI)	SUBLANG_FINNISH_FINLAND	1252
0x040c	1036	French (fr)	LANG_FRENCH	France (FR)	SUBLANG_FRENCH	1252
0x0407	1031	German (de)	LANG_GERMAN	Germany (DE)	SUBLANG_GERMAN	1252
0x0408	1032	Greek (el)	LANG_GREEK	Greece (GR)	SUBLANG_GREEK_GREECE	1253
0x040E	1038	Hungarian (hu)	LANG_HUNGARIAN	Hungary (HU)	SUBLANG_HUNGARIAN_HUNGARY	1250
0x040D	1037	Hebrew (he)	LANG_HEBREW	Israel (IL)	SUBLANG_HEBREW_ISRAEL	1255
0x0410	1040	Italian (it)	LANG_ITALIAN	Italy (IT)	SUBLANG_ITALIAN	1252
0x0411	1041	Japanese (ja)	LANG_JAPANESE	Japan (JP)	SUBLANG_JAPANESE_JAPAN	932
0x0412	1042	Korean (ko)	LANG_KOREAN	Korea (KR)	SUBLANG_KOREAN	949
0x0414	1044	Norwegian (no)	LANG_NORWEGIAN	Bokmål, Norway (NO)	SUBLANG_NORWEGIAN_BOKMAL	1252
0x0415	1045	Polish (pl)	LANG_POLISH	Poland (PL)	SUBLANG_POLISH_POLAND	1250
0x0416	1046	Portuguese (pt)	LANG_PORTUGUESE	Brazil (BR)	SUBLANG_PORTUGUESE_BRAZILIAN	1252
0x0816	2070	Portuguese (pt)	LANG_PORTUGUESE	Portugal (PT)	SUBLANG_PORTUGUESE	1252
0x0419	1049	Russian (ru)	LANG_RUSSIAN	Russia (RU)	SUBLANG_RUSSIAN_RUSSIA	1251
0x040A	1034	Spanish (es)	LANG_SPANISH	Spain, Traditional Sort (ES)	SUBLANG_SPANISH	1252
0x041D	1053	Swedish (sv)	LANG_SWEDISH	Sweden (SE)	SUBLANG_SWEDISH	1252
0x041F	1055	Turkish (tr)	LANG_TURKISH	Turkey (TR)	SUBLANG_TURKISH_TURKEY	1254

Reference Document

• Locales and Code Pages
• Language Identifiers