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Culture and language support for Windows Phone

May 31, 2013

Applies to: Windows Phone 8 | Windows Phone OS 7.1

Region format data refers to how numbers, currencies, time, and dates are formatted for a specific culture. Windows Phone supports region format data for all cultures listed in the CultureInfo class. The CultureInfo class exposes properties to access region format data for a specific culture.

The display language on a phone determines the default UI font. Display languages are shipped with the phone depending on market and country/region, and are selectable by the user on the language+region section of the Settings page.

Windows Phone supports the display languages in the following table.

Culture name

Culture code

Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone OS 7.1

Albanian (Albania)

sq-AL

green check markred x

Arabic

ar-SA

green check markred x

Azerbaijani (Latin)- Azerbaijan

Az-Latn-AZ

green check markred x

Belarusian- Belarus

be-BY

green check markred x

Bulgarian (Bulgaria)

bg-BG

green check markred x

Catalan (Spain)

ca-ES

green check markred x

Chinese Simplified (PRC)

zh-CN

green check markgreen check mark

Chinese Traditional (Taiwan)

zh-TW

green check markgreen check mark

Croatian (Croatia)

hr-HR

green check markred x

Czech (Czech Republic)

cs-CZ

green check markgreen check mark

Danish (Denmark)

da-DK

green check markgreen check mark

Dutch (Netherlands)

nl-NL

green check markgreen check mark

English (United States)

en-US

green check markgreen check mark

English (United Kingdom)

en-GB

green check markgreen check mark

Estonian (Estonia)

et-EE

green check markred x

Filipino (Philippines)

fil-PH

green check markred x

Finnish (Finland)

fi-FI

green check markgreen check mark

French (France)

fr-FR

green check markgreen check mark

German (Germany)

de-DE

green check markgreen check mark

Greek (Greece)

el-GR

green check markgreen check mark

Hebrew (Israel)

he-IL

green check markred x

Hindi (India)

hi-IN

green check markred x

Hungarian (Hungary)

hu-HU

green check markgreen check mark

Indonesian (Indonesia)

id-ID

green check markgreen check mark

Italian (Italy)

it-IT

green check markgreen check mark

Japanese (Japan)

ja-JP

green check markgreen check mark

Kazakh (Kazakhstan)

kk-KZ

green check markred x

Korean (Korea)

ko-KR

green check markgreen check mark

Latvian (Latvia)

lv-LV

green check markred x

Lithuanian (Lithuania)

lt-LT

green check markred x

Macedonian (FYRO)

mk-MK

green check markred x

Malay (Malaysia)

ms-MY

green check markgreen check mark

Norwegian (Norway)

nb-NO

green check markgreen check mark

Persian (Iran)

fa-IR

green check markred x

Polish (Poland)

pl-PL

green check markgreen check mark

Portuguese (Brazil)

pt-BR

green check markgreen check mark

Portuguese (Portugal)

pt-PT

green check markgreen check mark

Romanian (Romania)

ro-RO

green check markred x

Russian (Russia)

ru-RU

green check markgreen check mark

Serbian (Latin)- Serbia

sr-Latn-CS

green check markred x

Slovak (Slovakia)

sk-SK

green check markred x

Slovenian (Slovenia)

sl-SL

green check markred x

Spanish (Spain)

es-ES

green check markgreen check mark

Spanish (Mexico)

es-MX

green check markred x

Swedish (Sweden)

sv-SE

green check markgreen check mark

Thai (Thailand)

th-TH

green check markred x

Turkish (Turkey)

tr-TR

green check markred x

Ukrainian (Ukraine)

uk-UA

green check markred x

Uzbek (Latin)- Uzbekistan

uz-Latn-UZ

green check markred x

Vietnamese (Vietnam)

vi-VN

green check markred x

Instead of developing your own formatting and sorting solution, you can use the CultureInfo class in combination with a culture code to use built-in formatting and sorting rules for that culture. For a code example of how to do this, see How to build a globalized app for Windows Phone.

Important noteImportant Note:

Spanish Traditional sort has been replaced with Spanish Modern sort in Windows Phone OS 7.1.

While developers do not have programmatic access to these Windows Phone 8 features, knowing about the international support of these features may be helpful when developing apps. The following table lists the international phone features supported by Windows Phone 8. In addition, this table also provides the languages that do not support these internation phone features in Windows Phone OS 7.1.

Windows Phone 8 international phone features

Language

Display language

Input Method Editor (IME)/ Software-based Input Panel (SIP)

Dictionary

Contacts sorting

Windows Phone OS 7.1

Albanian

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Arabic

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Azerbaijani (Latin)

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Belarusian- Belarus

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Bulgarian

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Catalan

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Chinese (Simplified)

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Chinese (Traditional)

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Croatian

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Czech

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Danish

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Dutch

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

English (United States)

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

English (United Kingdom)

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Estonian

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Filipino

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Finnish

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

French

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

German

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Greek

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Hebrew

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Hindi

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Hungarian

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Indonesian

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Italian

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Japanese

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Kazakh

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Korean

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Latvian

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Lithuanian

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Macedonian

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Malay

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Norwegian

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Persian

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Polish

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Portuguese (Brazil)

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Portuguese (Portugal)

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Romanian

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Russian

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Serbian (Latin)

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Slovak

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Slovenian

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Spanish

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Swedish

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check mark

Thai

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Turkish

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Ukrainian

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Uzbek (Latin)

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

Vietnamese

green check markgreen check markgreen check markgreen check markred x

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