About Locales
Locales tell the system how to display characters on your system. A locale is often required to show non-English UTF-8 characters on the page. This is a list of locales that works with vBulletin. Each locale needs to be installed in the Operating System to work properly.
Standard vBulletin Languages
Language | Locale | Base Character Set |
---|---|---|
English (US) | en_us.UTF8 | ISO-8859-1 |
German (DU) | de_DE.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
French | fr_FR.UTF-8 or fr_CH.UTF-8 or fr_BE.UTF-8 |
WINDOWS-1252 |
Spanish | es_ES.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Other Languages
Language | Locale | Base Character Set |
---|---|---|
Afrikaans | af_ZA.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Albanian | sq_AL.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1250 |
Arabic | ar_SA.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1256 |
Basque | eu_ES.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Belarusian | be_BY.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1251 |
Bosnian | bs_BA.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1250 |
Bulgarian | bg_BG.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1251 |
Catalan | ca_ES.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Croatian | hr_HR.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1250 |
Chinese (Simplified) | zh_CN.UTF-8 | CP936 |
Chinese (Traditional) | zh_TW.UTF-8 | CP950 |
Czech | cs_CZ.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1250 |
Danish | da_DK.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Dutch | nl_NL.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
English (AUS) | en.UTF-8 | ISO-8859-1 |
Estonian | et_EE.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1257 |
Farsi | fa_IR.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1256 |
Filipino | ph_PH.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Finnish | fi_FI.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
French (Canada) | fr_CA.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Gaelic | ga.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Gallego | gl_ES.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Georgian | ka_GE.UTF-8 | |
German | de_DE.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Greek | el_GR.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1253 |
Gujarati | gu.UTF-8 | |
Hebrew | he_IL.utf8 | WINDOWS-1255 |
Hindi | hi_IN.UTF-8 | |
Hungarian | hu.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1250 |
Icelandic | is_IS.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Indonesian | id_ID.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Italian | it_IT.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Japanese | ja_JP.UTF-8 | CP932 |
Kannada | kn_IN.UTF-8 | |
Khmer | km_KH.UTF-8 | |
Korean | ko_KR.UTF-8 | EUC-KR |
Lao | lo_LA.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1257 |
Lithuanian | lt_LT.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1257 |
Latvian | lat.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1257 |
Malayalam | ml_IN.UTF-8 | x-iscii-ma |
Malaysian | ms_MY.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Maori (Ngai Tahu) | mi_NZ.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Maori (Waikoto Uni) | mi_NZ.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Mongolian | mn.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1251 |
Norwegian | no_NO.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Norwegian (Primary) | no_NO.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Nynorsk | nn_NO.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Polish | pl.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1250 |
Portuguese | pt_PT.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Portuguese (Brazil) | pt_BR.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Romanian | ro_RO.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1250 |
Russian | ru_RU.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1251 |
Samoan | Maori.1252 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Serbian | sr_CS.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1251 |
Slovak | sk_SK.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1250 |
Slovenian | sl_SI.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1250 |
Somali | so_SO.UTF-8 | |
Swedish | sv_SE.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1252 |
Tagalog | tl.UTF-8 | |
Tamil | ta_IN.UTF-8 | |
Thai | th_TH.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-874 |
Tongan | mi_NZ.UTF-8' | WINDOWS-1252 |
Turkish | tr_TR.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1254 |
Ukrainian | uk_UA.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1251 |
Vietnamese | vi_VN.UTF-8 | WINDOWS-1258 |
- Language: name of the language
- Locale: Locale string to be used for UTF-8 Support.
- Alternative: Alternative Character Set for the language. May not support UTF-8.