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Culture and Language Support for Windows Phone

Windows Phone

March 22, 2012

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 region+language section of the Settings page.

Windows Phone supports the display languages in the following table.

Culture name

Culture code

Windows Phone OS 7.0

Windows Phone OS 7.1

Chinese Simplified (PRC)

zh-CN

 red x green check mark

Chinese Traditional (Taiwan)

zh-TW

 red x green check mark

Czech (Czech Republic)

cs-CZ

 red x green check mark

Danish (Denmark)

da-DK

 red x green check mark

Dutch (Netherlands)

nl-NL

 red x green check mark

English (United States)

en-US

 green check mark green check mark

English (United Kingdom)

en-GB

 green check mark green check mark

Finnish (Finland)

fi-FI

 red x green check mark

French (France)

fr-FR

 green check mark green check mark

German (Germany)

de-DE

 green check mark green check mark

Greek (Greece)

el-GR

 red x green check mark

Hungarian (Hungary)

hu-HU

 red x green check mark

Indonesian (Indonesia)

id-ID

 red x green check mark

Italian (Italy)

it-IT

 green check mark green check mark

Japanese (Japan)

ja-JP

 red x green check mark

Korean (Korea)

ko-KR

 red x green check mark

Malay (Malaysia)

ms-MY

 red x green check mark

Norwegian (Norway)

nb-NO

 red x green check mark

Polish (Poland)

pl-PL

 red x green check mark

Portuguese (Brazil)

pt-BR

 red x green check mark

Portuguese (Portugal)

pt-PT

 red x green check mark

Russian (Russia)

ru-RU

 red x green check mark

Spanish (Spain)

es-ES

 green check mark green check mark

Swedish (Sweden)

sv-SE

 red x green check mark

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 Application for Windows Phone.

Important note Important 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 features, they may be helpful to know about when developing your application.

Language

Display language

IME/SIP

Dictionary

Contacts sorting

Windows Phone OS 7.0

Windows Phone OS 7.1

Chinese (Simplified)

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

Chinese (Traditional)

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

Czech

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

Danish

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

Dutch

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

English (United States)

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark

English (United Kingdom)

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark

Filipino

 red x green check mark red x red x red x green check mark

Finnish

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

French

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark

German

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark

Greek

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

Hungarian

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

Indonesian (Indonesia)

 green check mark green check mark red x red x red x green check mark

Italian

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark

Japanese

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

Korean

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

Malay (Malaysia)

 green check mark green check mark red x red x red x green check mark

Norwegian

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

Polish

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

Portuguese (Brazil)

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

Portuguese (Portugal)

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

Russian

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

Spanish

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark

Swedish

 green check mark green check mark green check mark green check mark red x green check mark

Turkish

 red x green check mark red x red x red x green check mark

Ukrainian

 red x green check mark red x red x red x green check mark

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