Windows Collation Designators
Use this table to synchronize collation settings with another Windows locale.
In Control Panel, find the Windows locale name in the Regional Settings application (Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0, Microsoft Windows® 98, and Microsoft Windows 95) or the Regional Options application (Microsoft Windows 2000), and then use this table to find the corresponding Collation Designator and code page.
| Windows locale | LCID (locale ID) |
Collation designator |
Code page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afrikaans | 0xx436 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| Albanian | 0x41C | Albanian | 1250 |
| Arabic (Saudi Arabia) | 0x401 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Arabic (Iraq) | 0x801 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Arabic (Egypt) | 0xC01 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Arabic (Libya) | 0x1001 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Arabic (Algeria) | 0x1401 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Arabic (Morocco) | 0x1801 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Arabic (Tunisia) | 0x1C01 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Arabic (Oman) | 0x2001 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Arabic (Yemen) | 0x2401 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Arabic (Syria) | 0x2801 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Arabic (Jordan) | 0x2C01 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Arabic (Lebanon) | 0x3001 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Arabic (Kuwait) | 0x3401 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Arabic (United Arab Emirates) | 0x3801 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Arabic (Bahrain) | 0x3C01 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Arabic (Qatar) | 0x4001 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Basque | 0x42D | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| Byelorussian | 0x423 | Cyrillic_General | 1251 |
| Bulgarian | 0x402 | Cyrillic_General | 1251 |
| Catalan | 0x403 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| Chinese (Taiwan) | 0x30404 | Chinese_Taiwan_Bopomofo | 950 |
| Chinese (Taiwan) | 0x404 | Chinese_Taiwan_Stroke | 950 |
| Chinese (People's Republic of China) | 0x804 | Chinese_PRC | 936 |
| Chinese (People's Republic of China) | 0x20804 | Chinese_PRC_Stroke | 936 |
| Chinese (Singapore) | 0x1004 | Chinese_PRC | 936 |
| Croatia | 0x41a | Croatian | 1250 |
| Czech | 0x405 | Czech | 1250 |
| Danish | 0x406 | Danish_Norwegian | 1252 |
| Dutch (Standard) | 0x413 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| Dutch (Belgium) | 0x813 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| English (United States) | 0x409 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| English (Britain) | 0x809 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| English (Canada) | 0x1009 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| English (New Zealand) | 0x1409 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| English (Australia) | 0xC09 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| English (Ireland) | 0x1809 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| English (South Africa) | 0x1C09 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| English (Carribean) | 0x2409 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| English (Jamaican) | 0x2009 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| Estonian | 0x425 | Estonian | 1257 |
| Faeroese | 0x0438 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| Farsi | 0x429 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Finnish | 0x40B | Finnish_Swedish | 1252 |
| French (Standard) | 0x40C | French | 1252 |
| French (Belgium) | 0x80C | French | 1252 |
| French (Switzerland) | 0x100C | French | 1252 |
| French (Canada) | 0xC0C | French | 1252 |
| French (Luxembourg) | 0x140C | French | 1252 |
| Georgian (Modern Sort) | 0x10437 | Georgian_Modern_Sort | 1252 |
| German (PhoneBook Sort) | 0x10407 | German_PhoneBook | 1252 |
| German (Standard) | 0x407 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| German (Switzerland) | 0x807 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| German (Austria) | 0xC07 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| German (Luxembourg) | 0x1007 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| German (Liechtenstein) | 0x1407 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| Greek | 0x408 | Greek | 1253 |
| Hebrew | 0x40D | Hebrew | 1255 |
| Hindi | 0x439 | Hindi | Unicode only |
| Hungarian | 0x40E | Hungarian | 1250 |
| Hungarian | 0x104E | Hungarian_Technical | 1250 |
| Icelandic | 0x40F | Icelandic | 1252 |
| Indonesian | 0x421 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| Italian | 0x410 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| Italian (Switzerland) | 0x810 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| Japanese | 0x411 | Japanese | 932 |
| Japanese (Unicode) | 0x10411 | Japanese_Unicode | 932 |
| Korean (Extended Wansung) | 0x412 | Korean_Wansung | 949 |
| Korean | 0x412 | Korean_Wansung_Unicode | 949 |
| Latvian | 0x426 | Latvian | 1257 |
| Lithuanian | 0x427 | Lithuanian | 1257 |
| Lithuanian | 0x827 | Lithuanian_Classic | 1257 |
| Macedonian | 0x41C | Cyrillic_General | 1251 |
| Norwegian (Bokmål) | 0x414 | Danish_Norwegian | 1252 |
| Norwegian (Nynorsk) | 0x814 | Danish_Norwegian | 1252 |
| Polish | 0x415 | Polish | 1250 |
| Portuguese (Standard) | 0x816 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| Portuguese (Brazil) | 0x416 | Latin1_General | 1252 |
| Romanian | 0x418 | Romanian | 1250 |
| Russian | 0x419 | Cyrillic_General | 1251 |
| Serbian (Latin) | 0x81A | Cyrillic_General | 1251 |
| Serbian (Cyrillic) | 0xC1A | Cyrillic_General | 1251 |
| Slovak | 0x41B | Slovak | 1250 |
| Slovenian | 0x424 | Slovenian | 1250 |
| Spanish (Mexico) | 0x80A | Traditional_Spanish | 1252 |
| Spanish (Traditional Sort) | 0x40A | Traditional_Spanish | 1252 |
| Spanish (Modern Sort) | 0xC0A | Modern_Spanish | 1252 |
| Spanish (Guatemala) | 0x100A | Modern_Spanish | 1252 |
| Spanish (Costa Rica) | 0x140A | Modern_Spanish | 1252 |
| Spanish (Panama) | 0x180A | Modern_Spanish | 1252 |
| Spanish (Dominican Republic) | 0x1C0A | Modern_Spanish | 1252 |
| Spanish (Venezuela) | 0x200A | Modern_Spanish | 1252 |
| Spanish (Colombia) | 0x240A | Modern_Spanish | 1252 |
| Spanish (Peru) | 0x280A | Modern_Spanish | 1252 |
| Spanish (Argentina) | 0x2C0A | Modern_Spanish | 1252 |
| Spanish (Ecuador) | 0x300A | Modern_Spanish | 1252 |
| Spanish (Chile) | 0x340A | Modern_Spanish | 1252 |
| Spanish (Uruguay) | 0x380A | Modern_Spanish | 1252 |
| Spanish (Paraguay) | 0x3C0A | Modern_Spanish | 1252 |
| Spanish (Bolivia) | 0x400A | Modern_Spanish | 1252 |
| Swedish | 0x41D | Finnish_Swedish | 1252 |
| Thai | 0x41E | Thai | 874 |
| Turkish | 0x41F | Turkish | 1254 |
| Ukrainian | 0x422 | Ukrainian | 1251 |
| Urdu | 0x420 | Arabic | 1256 |
| Vietnamese | 0x42A | Vietnamese | 1258 |