Windows Collation Designators
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 |