Posted by Kimmo Laine on 11/28/25 11:51

"pek" <kimwlias@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1151410830.950054.4260@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>I was wandering where can I find the list of language code name with
> this prefix country_language.
> i.e. en_US, en_GB, fr_BE etc
> I have noticed a few programs use this type of prefix (firefox does in
> a way).
> I have looked ISO's and never found exactly the list I am looking for.
> Does anybody know anything about this..?
>
> Thank you.

They're sometimes called locales. Here are some lists but Im not sure how
complete they are:
http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/~pesca/locales.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/intl/locale.doc.html
Also check this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locale

It's to separate the language from the nationality. For example Finland is
officially bi-lingual, we have sv_Fi and fi_FI. The formatting currency,
date, time, etc is same for all FI, but the language used in the application
might be either swedish or finnish depending on which locale it is.



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