Definition: Locale is a set of parameters that defines the user’s language, country and any special variant preferences that the user wants to see in their user interface. Usually a locale identifier consists of at least a language identifier and a region identifier.
Currently such locales are named differently under Unix-based and Win32-based platforms so we need to have them defined separately to allow Moodle to use them as necessary. For each lang package’ available for Moodle, we must specify the locale value (Unix locale) and the localewin value (Win32 locale). Both those strings should be (no mandatory) defined inside each Moodle 1.6 and upwards langpack to be able to display locale strings properly.
| package_name | lang_name | locale | localewin | localewincharset |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| af_utf8 | Afrikaans | af_ZA.UTF-8 | Afrikaans_South Africa.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| sq_utf8 | Albanian | sq_AL.UTF-8 | Albanian_Albania.1250 | WINDOWS-1250 |
| ar_utf8 | Arabic | ar_SA.UTF-8 | Arabic_Saudi Arabia.1256 | WINDOWS-1256 |
| eu_utf8 | Basque | eu_ES.UTF-8 | Basque_Spain.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| be_utf8 | Belarusian | be_BY.UTF-8 | Belarusian_Belarus.1251 | WINDOWS-1251 |
| bs_utf8 | Bosnian | bs_BA.UTF-8 | Serbian (Latin) | WINDOWS-1250 |
| bg_utf8 | Bulgarian | bg_BG.UTF-8 | Bulgarian_Bulgaria.1251 | WINDOWS-1251 |
| ca_utf8 | Catalan | ca_ES.UTF-8 | Catalan_Spain.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| hr_utf8 | Croatian | hr_HR.UTF-8 | Croatian_Croatia.1250 | WINDOWS-1250 |
| zh_cn_utf8 | Chinese (Simplified) | zh_CN.UTF-8 | Chinese_China.936 | CP936 |
| zh_tw_utf8 | Chinese (Traditional) | zh_TW.UTF-8 | Chinese_Taiwan.950 | CP950 |
| cs_utf8 | Czech | cs_CZ.UTF-8 | Czech_Czech Republic.1250 | WINDOWS-1250 |
| da_utf8 | Danish | da_DK.UTF-8 | Danish_Denmark.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| nl_utf8 | Dutch | nl_NL.UTF-8 | Dutch_Netherlands.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| en_utf8 | English | en.UTF-8 | English_Australia.1252 | -empty string- |
| en_us_utf8 | English (US) | -parent en_utf8 used- | -parent en_utf8 used- | -parent en_utf8 used- |
| et_utf8 | Estonian | et_EE.UTF-8 | Estonian_Estonia.1257 | WINDOWS-1257 |
| fa_utf8 | Farsi | fa_IR.UTF-8 | Farsi_Iran.1256 | WINDOWS-1256 |
| fil_utf8 | Filipino | ph_PH.UTF-8 | Filipino_Philippines.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| fi_utf8 | Finnish | fi_FI.UTF-8 | Finnish_Finland.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| fr_utf8 | French | fr_FR.UTF-8 or fr_CH.UTF-8 or fr_BE.UTF-8 |
French_France.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| fr_ca_utf8 | French (Canada) | fr_CA.UTF-8 | French_Canada.1252 | -parent fr_utf8 used- |
| ga_utf8 | Gaelic | ga.UTF-8 | Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic | WINDOWS-1252 |
| gl_utf8 | Gallego | gl_ES.UTF-8 | Galician_Spain.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| ka_utf8 | Georgian | ka_GE.UTF-8 | Georgian_Georgia.65001 | -empty string- |
| de_utf8 | German | de_DE.UTF-8 | German_Germany.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| de_du_utf8 | German (Personal) | de_DE.UTF-8 | -parent de_utf8 used- | -parent de_utf8 used- |
| el_utf8 | Greek | el_GR.UTF-8 | Greek_Greece.1253 | WINDOWS-1253 |
| gu_utf8 | Gujarati | gu.UTF-8 | Gujarati_India.0 | |
| he_utf8 | Hebrew | he_IL.utf8 | Hebrew_Israel.1255 | WINDOWS-1255 |
| hi_utf8 | Hindi | hi_IN.UTF-8 | Hindi.65001 | -empty string- |
| hu_utf8 | Hungarian | hu.UTF-8 | Hungarian_Hungary.1250 | WINDOWS-1250 |
| is_utf8 | Icelandic | is_IS.UTF-8 | Icelandic_Iceland.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| id_utf8 | Indonesian | id_ID.UTF-8 | Indonesian_indonesia.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| it_utf8 | Italian | it_IT.UTF-8 | Italian_Italy.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| ja_utf8 | Japanese | ja_JP.UTF-8 | Japanese_Japan.932 | CP932 |
| kn_utf8 | Kannada | kn_IN.UTF-8 | Kannada.65001 | -empty string- |
| km_utf8 | Khmer | km_KH.UTF-8 | Khmer.65001 | -empty string- |
| ko_utf8 | Korean | ko_KR.UTF-8 | Korean_Korea.949 | EUC-KR |
| lo_utf8 | Lao | lo_LA.UTF-8 | Lao_Laos.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1257 |
| lt_utf8 | Lithuanian | lt_LT.UTF-8 | Lithuanian_Lithuania.1257 | WINDOWS-1257 |
| lv_utf8 | Latvian | lat.UTF-8 | Latvian_Latvia.1257 | WINDOWS-1257 |
| ml_utf8 | Malayalam | ml_IN.UTF-8 | Malayalam_India.x-iscii-ma | x-iscii-ma |
| ms_utf8 | Malaysian | ms_MY.UTF-8 | Malay_malaysia.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| mi_tn_utf8 | Maori (Ngai Tahu) | mi_NZ.UTF-8 | Maori.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| mi_wwow_utf8 | Maori (Waikoto Uni) | mi_NZ.UTF-8 | Maori.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| mn_utf8 | Mongolian | mn.UTF-8 | Cyrillic_Mongolian.1251 | |
| no_utf8 | Norwegian | no_NO.UTF-8 | Norwegian_Norway.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| no_gr_utf8 | Norwegian (Primary) | no_NO.UTF-8 | -parent no_utf8 used- | -parent no_utf8 used- |
| nn_utf8 | Nynorsk | nn_NO.UTF-8 | Norwegian-Nynorsk_Norway.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| pl_utf8 | Polish | pl.UTF-8 | Polish_Poland.1250 | WINDOWS-1250 |
| pt_utf8 | Portuguese | pt_PT.UTF-8 | Portuguese_Portugal.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| pt_br_utf8 | Portuguese (Brazil) | pt_BR.UTF-8 | Portuguese_Brazil.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| ro_utf8 | Romanian | ro_RO.UTF-8 | Romanian_Romania.1250 | WINDOWS-1250 |
| ru_utf8 | Russian | ru_RU.UTF-8 | Russian_Russia.1251 | WINDOWS-1251 |
| sm_utf8 | Samoan | mi_NZ.UTF-8 | Maori.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| sr_utf8 | Serbian | sr_CS.UTF-8 | Serbian (Cyrillic)_Serbia and Montenegro.1251 | WINDOWS-1251 |
| sk_utf8 | Slovak | sk_SK.UTF-8 | Slovak_Slovakia.1250 | WINDOWS-1250 |
| sl_utf8 | Slovenian | sl_SI.UTF-8 | Slovenian_Slovenia.1250 | WINDOWS-1250 |
| so_utf8 | Somali | so_SO.UTF-8 | not found! | not found! |
| es_utf8 | Spanish (International) | es_ES.UTF-8 | Spanish_Spain.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| sv_utf8 | Swedish | sv_SE.UTF-8 | Swedish_Sweden.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| tl_utf8 | Tagalog | tl.UTF-8 | not found! | not found! |
| ta_utf8 | Tamil | ta_IN.UTF-8 | English_Australia.1252 | |
| th_utf8 | Thai | th_TH.UTF-8 | Thai_Thailand.874 | WINDOWS-874 |
| to_utf8 | Tongan | mi_NZ.UTF-8′ | Maori.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
| tr_utf8 | Turkish | tr_TR.UTF-8 | Turkish_Turkey.1254 | WINDOWS-1254 |
| uk_utf8 | Ukrainian | uk_UA.UTF-8 | Ukrainian_Ukraine.1251 | WINDOWS-1251 |
| vi_utf8 | Vietnamese | vi_VN.UTF-8 | Vietnamese_Viet Nam.1258 | WINDOWS-1258 |