Locales
A locale is a code representing a language and country. Locales are used in Studio for two purposes: (1) parsing and formatting dates and times; and (2) number formatting.
Most locales have two parts. The language part of the code (e.g. en for English) comes first, followed by the country part (e.g. US for United States). The two parts are separated by an underscore or a hyphen. Therefore en_US and en-US are equally valid and both denote the same language-country combination.
A small number of locales have three parts. For further information about these, see Locales with three parts.
Index of locales
The table below displays a selection of locales supported in Studio.
Important
There are approximately 500 different locales. Click HERE to download the full list.
Locale | Language | Country |
|---|---|---|
ar_AE | Arabic | United Arab Emirates |
ar_EG | Arabic | Egypt |
ar_QA | Arabic | Qatar |
ar_SA | Arabic | Saudi Arabia |
ca_ES | Catalan | Spain |
ca_FR | Catalan | France |
ca_IT | Catalan | Italy |
cs_CZ | Czech | Czech Republic |
da_DK | Danish | Denmark |
de_AT | German | Austria |
de_CH | German | Switzerland |
de_DE | German | Germany |
en_AE | English | United Arab Emirates |
en_AU | English | Australia |
en_CA | English | Canada |
en_GB | English | United Kingdom |
en_NZ | English | New Zealand |
en_US | English | United States |
en_ZA | English | South Africa |
es_AR | Spanish | Argentina |
es_CL | Spanish | Chile |
es_ES | Spanish | Spain |
es_MX | Spanish | Mexico |
fr_BE | French | Belgium |
fr_CA | French | Canada |
fr_CH | French | Switzerland |
fr_FR | French | France |
hi_IN | Hindi | India |
it_CH | Italian | Switzerland |
it_IT | Italian | Italy |
ja_JP | Japanese | Japan |
ko_KR | Korean | South Korea |
nl_BE | Dutch | Belgium |
nl_NL | Dutch | Netherlands |
no_NO | Norwegian | Norway |
pl_PL | Polish | Poland |
pt_BR | Portuguese | Brazil |
pt_PT | Portuguese | Portugal |
ru_RU | Russian | Russia |
sr_RS | Swedish | Sweden |
zh_CN | Chinese | China |
zh_HK | Chinese | Hong Kong |
zh_SG | Chinese | Singapore |
For clarity, each locale above uses an underscore for the separator. Each could be written using a hyphen separator instead.
Locales with three parts
Several locales have three parts instead of two:
Locale | Notes |
|---|---|
ja_JP_JP | This locale uses the Japanese imperial calendar. The locale ja_JP uses the Gregorian calendar. |
no_NO_NY | This locale uses the Nynorsk standard of written Norwegian. The locale no_NO applies the Bokmål standard. |
th_TH_TH | This locale uses the Thai Buddist calendar. The locale th_TH uses the Gregorian calendar. |
