Available Locales

Appendix A

The available locales can be classified as recommended locales and additional locales. The following tables summarize the locales available in Oracle Solaris 11.

Table A-1 – This table provides the list of locales available from the default package system/locale.
Table A-2 – This table provides the list of traditional (legacy) locales available from the optional package system/locale/extra.

Table A-1 Recommended Locales

Locale	Code Set	Description
`C`	`US-ASCII`	`C` , `POSIX`
`POSIX`	`US-ASCII`	`C`, `POSIX`
`af_ZA.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Afrikaans, South Africa
`ar_AE.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Arabic, United Arab Emirates
`ar_BH.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Arabic, Bahrain
`ar_DZ.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Arabic, Algeria
`ar_EG.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Arabic, Egypt
`ar_IQ.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Arabic, Iraq
`ar_JO.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Arabic, Jordan
`ar_KW.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Arabic, Kuwait
`ar_LY.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Arabic, Libya
`ar_MA.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Arabic, Morocco
`ar_OM.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Arabic, Oman
`ar_QA.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Arabic, Qatar
`ar_SA.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Arabic, Saudi Arabia
`ar_TN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Arabic, Tunisia
`ar_YE.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Arabic, Yemen
`as_IN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Assamese, India
`az_AZ.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Azerbaijani, Azerbaijan
`be_BY.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Belarusian, Belarus
`bg_BG.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Bulgarian, Bulgaria
`bn_IN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Bengali, India
`bs_BA.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Bosnian, Bosnia and Herzegovina
`ca_ES.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Catalan, Spain
`cs_CZ.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Czech, Czech Republic
`da_DK.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Danish, Denmark
`de_AT.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	German, Austria
`de_BE.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	German, Belgium
`de_CH.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	German, Switzerland
`de_DE.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	German, Germany
`de_LI.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	German, Liechtenstein
`de_LU.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	German, Luxembourg
`el_CY.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Greek, Cyprus
`el_GR.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Greek, Greece
`en_AU.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	English, Australia
`en_BW.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	English, Botswana
`en_CA.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	English, Canada
`en_GB.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	English, United Kingdom
`en_HK.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	English, Hong Kong SAR China
`en_IE.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	English, Ireland
`en_IN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	English, India
`en_MT.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	English, Malta
`en_NZ.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	English, New Zealand
`en_PH.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	English, Philippines
`en_SG.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	English, Singapore
`en_US.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	English, U.S.A.
`en_ZW.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	English, Zimbabwe
`es_AR.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Argentina
`es_BO.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Bolivia
`es_CL.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Chile
`es_CO.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Colombia
`es_CR.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Costa Rica
`es_DO.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Dominican Republic
`es_EC.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Ecuador
`es_ES.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Spain
`es_GT.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Guatemala
`es_HN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Honduras
`es_MX.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Mexico
`es_NI.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Nicaragua
`es_PA.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Panama
`es_PE.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Peru
`es_PR.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Puerto Rico
`es_PY.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Paraguay
`es_SV.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, El Salvador
`es_US.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, U.S.A.
`es_UY.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Uruguay
`es_VE.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Spanish, Venezuela
`et_EE.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Estonian, Estonia
`fi_FI.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Finnish, Finland
`fr_BE.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	French, Belgium
`fr_CA.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	French, Canada
`fr_CH.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	French, Switzerland
`fr_FR.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	French, France
`fr_LU.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	French, Luxembourg
`gu_IN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Gujarati, India
`he_IL.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Hebrew, Israel
`hi_IN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Hindi, India
`hr_HR.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Croatian, Croatia
`hu_HU.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Hungarian, Hungary
`hy_AM.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Armenian, Armenia
`id_ID.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Indonesian, Indonesia
`is_IS.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Icelandic, Iceland
`it_CH.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Italian, Switzerland
`it_IT.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Italian, Italy
`ja_JP.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Japanese, Japan
`ka_GE.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Georgian, Georgia
`kk_KZ.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Kazakh, Kazakhstan
`kn_IN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Kannada, India
`ko_KR.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Korean, Korea
`ks_IN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Kashmiri, India
`ku_TR.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Kurdish, Turkey
`ku_TR.UTF-8@sorani`	`UTF-8`	Kurdish (Sorani), Turkey
`ky_KG.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Kirghiz, Kyrgyzstan
`lt_LT.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Lithuanian, Lithuania
`lv_LV.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Latvian, Latvia
`mk_MK.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Macedonian, Macedonia
`ml_IN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Malayalam, India
`mr_IN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Marathi, India
`ms_MY.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Malay, Malaysia
`mt_MT.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Maltese, Malta
`nb_NO.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Bokmal, Norway
`nl_BE.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Dutch, Belgium
`nl_NL.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Dutch, Netherlands
`nn_NO.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Nynorsk, Norway
`or_IN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Oriya, India
`pa_IN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Punjabi, India
`pl_PL.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Polish, Poland
`pt_BR.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Portuguese, Brazil
`pt_PT.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Portuguese, Portugal
`ro_RO.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Romanian, Romania
`ru_RU.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Russian, Russia
`ru_UA.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Russian, Ukraine
`sa_IN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Sanskrit, India
`sk_SK.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Slovak, Slovakia
`sl_SI.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Slovenian, Slovenia
`sq_AL.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Albanian, Albania
`sr_ME.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Serbian, Montenegro
`sr_ME.UTF-8@latin`	`UTF-8`	Serbian, Montenegro (Latin)
`sr_RS.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Serbian, Serbia
`sr_RS.UTF-8@latin`	`UTF-8`	Serbian, Serbia (Latin)
`sv_SE.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Swedish, Sweden
`ta_IN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Tamil, India
`te_IN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Telugu, India
`th_TH.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Thai, Thailand
`tr_TR.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Turkish, Turkey
`uk_UA.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Ukrainian, Ukraine
`vi_VN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Vietnamese, Vietnam
`zh_CN.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Simplified Chinese, China
`zh_HK.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong SAR China
`zh_SG.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Chinese, Singapore
`zh_TW.UTF-8`	`UTF-8`	Traditional Chinese, Taiwan

Table A-2 Additional Locales

Locales	Code Set	Description
`ar_EG.ISO8859-6`	`ISO8859-6`	Arabic, Egypt
`bg_BG.ISO8859-5`	`ISO8859-5`	Bulgarian, Bulgaria
`bs_BA.ISO8859-2`	`ISO8859-2`	Bosnian, Bosnia and Herzegovina
`ca_ES.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Catalan, Spain
`ca_ES.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	Catalan, Spain
`cs_CZ.ISO8859-2`	`ISO8859-2`	Czech, Czech Republic
`CZ.UTF-8@euro`	`UTF-8`	Czech, Czech Republic (Euro)
`da_DK.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Danish, Denmark
`da_DK.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	Danish, Denmark
`da_DK.ISO8859-15@euro`	`ISO8859-15`	Danish, Denmark (Euro)
`de_AT.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	German, Austria
`de_AT.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	German, Austria
`de_CH.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	German, Switzerland
`de_DE.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	German, Germany
`de_DE.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	German, Germany
`el_GR.ISO8859-7`	`ISO8859-7`	Greek, Greece
`en_AU.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	English, Australia
`en_CA.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	English, Canada
`en_GB.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	English, United Kingdom
`en_GB.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	English, United Kingdom
`en_GB.ISO8859-15@euro`	`ISO8859-15`	English, United Kingdom (Euro)
`en_IE.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	English, Ireland
`en_IE.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	English, Ireland
`en_NZ.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	English, New Zealand
`en_US.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	English, U.S.A.
`en_US.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	English, U.S.A.
`en_US.ISO8859-15@euro`	`ISO8859-15`	English, U.S.A. (Euro)
`es_AR.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, Argentina
`es_BO.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, Bolivia
`es_CL.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, Chile
`es_CO.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, Colombia
`es_CR.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, Costa Rica
`es_EC.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, Ecuador
`es_ES.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, Spain
`es_ES.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	Spanish, Spain
`es_GT.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, Guatemala
`es_MX.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, Mexico
`es_NI.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, Nicaragua
`es_PA.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, Panama
`es_PE.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, Peru
`es_PY.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, Paraguay
`es_SV.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, El Salvador
`es_UY.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, Uruguay
`es_VE.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Spanish, Venezuela
`et_EE.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	Estonian, Estonia
`fi_FI.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Finnish, Finland
`fi_FI.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	Finnish, Finland
`fr_BE.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	French, Belgium
`fr_BE.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	French, Belgium
`fr_CA.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	French, Canada
`fr_CH.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	French, Switzerland
`fr_FR.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	French, France
`fr_FR.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	French, France
`he_IL.ISO8859-8`	`ISO8859-8`	Hebrew, Israel
`hr_HR.ISO8859-2`	`ISO8859-2`	Croatian, Croatia
`hu_HU.ISO8859-2`	`ISO8859-2`	Hungarian, Hungary
`is_IS.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Icelandic, Iceland
`it_IT.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Italian, Italy
`it_IT.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	Italian, Italy
`ja_JP.PCK`	`PCK`	Japanese, Japan (PC Kanji code, aka. Shift-JIS)
`ja_JP.eucJP`	`EUC-JP`	Japanese EUC environment. Compliant to UI-OSF Japanese Environment Implementation Agreement Version 1.1
`ja_JP.UTF-8@cldr`	`UTF-8`	Japanese, Japan (CLDR)
`ko_KR.EUC`	`KS X 1001`	Korean, Korea
`ko_KR.EUC@dict`	`KS X 1001`	Korean, Korea (dict)
`ko_KR.UTF-8@dict`	`UTF-8`	Korean, Korea (dict)
`lt_LT.ISO8859-13`	`ISO8859-13`	Lithuanian, Lithuania
`lv_LV.ISO8859-13`	`ISO8859-13`	Latvian, Latvia
`mk_MK.ISO8859-5`	`ISO8859-5`	Macedonian, Macedonia
`nb_NO.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Norwegian Bokmal, Norway
`nl_BE.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Dutch, Belgium
`nl_BE.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	Dutch, Belgium
`nl_NL.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Dutch, Netherlands
`nl_NL.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	Dutch, Netherlands
`nn_NO.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Norwegian Nynorsk, Norway
`pl_PL.ISO8859-2`	`ISO8859-2`	Polish, Poland
`pt_BR.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Portuguese, Brazil
`pt_PT.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Portuguese, Portugal
`pt_PT.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	Portuguese, Portugal
`ro_RO.ISO8859-2`	`ISO8859-2`	Romanian, Romania
`ru_RU.ANSI1251`	`ANSI1251`	Russian, Russia
`ru_RU.ISO8859-5`	`ISO8859-5`	Russian, Russia
`ru_RU.KOI8-R`	`KOI8-R`	Russian, Russia
`sk_SK.ISO8859-2`	`ISO8859-2`	Slovak, Slovakia
`sl_SI.ISO8859-2`	`ISO8859-2`	Slovenian, Slovenia
`sq_AL.ISO8859-2`	`ISO8859-2`	Albanian, Albania
`sr_ME.ISO8859-5`	`ISO8859-5`	Serbian, Montenegro
`sv_SE.ISO8859-1`	`ISO8859-1`	Swedish, Sweden
`sv_SE.ISO8859-15`	`ISO8859-15`	Swedish, Sweden
`sv_SE.ISO8859-15@euro`	`ISO8859-15`	Swedish, Sweden (Euro)
`sv_SE.UTF-8@euro`	`UTF-8`	Swedish, Sweden (Euro)
`th_TH.TIS620`	`TIS-620`	Thai, Thailand
`tr_TR.ISO8859-9`	`ISO8859-9`	Turkish, Turkey
`zh_CN.EUC`	`GB2312`	Simplified Chinese, China
`zh_CN.EUC@pinyin`	`GB2312`	Simplified Chinese, China (pinyin)
`zh_CN.EUC@radical`	`GB2312`	Simplified Chinese, China (radical)
`zh_CN.EUC@stroke`	`GB2312`	Simplified Chinese, China (stroke)
`zh_CN.GB18030`	`GB18030`	Simplified Chinese, China
`zh_CN.GB18030@pinyin`	`GB18030`	Simplified Chinese, China (pinyin)
`zh_CN.GB18030@radical`	`GB18030`	Simplified Chinese, China (radical)
`zh_CN.GB18030@stroke`	`GB18030`	Simplified Chinese, China (stroke)
`zh_CN.GBK`	`GBK`	Simplified Chinese, China
`zh_CN.GBK@pinyin`	`GBK`	Simplified Chinese, China (pinyin)
`zh_CN.GBK@radical`	`GBK`	Simplified Chinese, China (radical)
`zh_CN.GBK@stroke`	`GBK`	Simplified Chinese, China (stroke)
`zh_CN.UTF-8@pinyin`	`UTF-8`	Simplified Chinese, China (pinyin)
`zh_CN.UTF-8@radical`	`UTF-8`	Simplified Chinese, China (radical)
`zh_CN.UTF-8@stroke`	`UTF-8`	Simplified Chinese, China (stroke)
`zh_HK.BIG5HK`	`BIG5-HKSCS`	Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong SAR China
`zh_HK.BIG5HK@radical`	`BIG5-HKSCS`	Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong SAR China (radical)
`zh_HK.BIG5HK@stroke`	`BIG5-HKSCS`	Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong SAR China (stroke)
`zh_HK.UTF-8@radical`	`UTF-8`	Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong SAR China (radical)
`zh_HK.UTF-8@stroke`	`UTF-8`	Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong SAR China (stroke)
`zh_TW.BIG5`	`BIG5`	Traditional Chinese, Taiwan
`zh_TW.BIG5@pinyin`	`BIG5`	Traditional Chinese, Taiwan (pinyin)
`zh_TW.BIG5@radical`	`BIG5`	Traditional Chinese, Taiwan (radical)
`zh_TW.BIG5@stroke`	`BIG5`	Traditional Chinese, Taiwan (stroke)
`zh_TW.BIG5@zhuyin`	`BIG5`	Traditional Chinese, Taiwan (zhuyin)
`zh_TW.EUC`	`CNS11643-1992`	Traditional Chinese, Taiwan
`zh_TW.EUC@pinyin`	`CNS11643`	Traditional Chinese, Taiwan (pinyin)
`zh_TW.EUC@radical`	`CNS11643`	Traditional Chinese, Taiwan (radical)
`zh_TW.EUC@stroke`	`CNS11643`	Traditional Chinese, Taiwan (stroke)
`zh_TW.EUC@zhuyin`	`CNS11643`	Traditional Chinese, Taiwan (zhuyin)
`zh_TW.UTF-8@pinyin`	`UTF-8`	Traditional Chinese, Taiwan (pinyin)
`zh_TW.UTF-8@radical`	`UTF-8`	Traditional Chinese, Taiwan (radical)
`zh_TW.UTF-8@stroke`	`UTF-8`	Traditional Chinese, Taiwan (stroke)
`zh_TW.UTF-8@zhuyin`	`UTF-8`	Traditional Chinese, Taiwan (zhuyin)

Note - In earlier Oracle Solaris releases specification of ja locale (compatible with older Oracle Solaris release) was different from ja_JP.eucJP locale, but ja locale is now locale alias to ja_JP.eucJP in Oracle Solaris 11.

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