Available Locales and Supported Character Sets

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The available locales can be classified as recommended locales and additional locales. The following tables summarize the locales available in Oracle Solaris 11, including details of the supported character sets wherever appropriate.

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`	`Unicode 6.0`	Afrikaans, South Africa
`ar_AE.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Arabic, United Arab Emirates
`ar_BH.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Arabic, Bahrain
`ar_DZ.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Arabic, Algeria
`ar_EG.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Arabic, Egypt
`ar_IQ.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Arabic, Iraq
`ar_JO.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Arabic, Jordan
`ar_KW.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Arabic, Kuwait
`ar_LY.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Arabic, Libya
`ar_MA.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Arabic, Morocco
`ar_OM.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Arabic, Oman
`ar_QA.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Arabic, Qatar
`ar_SA.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Arabic, Saudi Arabia
`ar_TN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Arabic, Tunisia
`ar_YE.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Arabic, Yemen
`as_IN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Assamese, India
`az_AZ.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Azerbaijani, Azerbaijan
`be_BY.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Belarusian, Belarus
`bg_BG.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Bulgarian, Bulgaria
`bn_IN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Bengali, India
`bs_BA.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Bosnian, Bosnia and Herzegovina
`ca_ES.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Catalan, Spain
`cs_CZ.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Czech, Czech Republic
`da_DK.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Danish, Denmark
`de_AT.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	German, Austria
`de_BE.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	German, Belgium
`de_CH.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	German, Switzerland
`de_DE.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	German, Germany
`de_LI.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	German, Liechtenstein
`de_LU.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	German, Luxembourg
`el_CY.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Greek, Cyprus
`el_GR.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Greek, Greece
`en_AU.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	English, Australia
`en_BW.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	English, Botswana
`en_CA.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	English, Canada
`en_GB.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	English, United Kingdom
`en_HK.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	English, Hong Kong SAR China
`en_IE.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	English, Ireland
`en_IN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	English, India
`en_MT.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	English, Malta
`en_NZ.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	English, New Zealand
`en_PH.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	English, Philippines
`en_SG.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	English, Singapore
`en_US.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	English, U.S.A.
`en_ZW.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	English, Zimbabwe
`es_AR.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Argentina
`es_BO.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Bolivia
`es_CL.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Chile
`es_CO.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Colombia
`es_CR.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Costa Rica
`es_DO.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Dominican Republic
`es_EC.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Ecuador
`es_ES.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Spain
`es_GT.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Guatemala
`es_HN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Honduras
`es_MX.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Mexico
`es_NI.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Nicaragua
`es_PA.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Panama
`es_PE.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Peru
`es_PR.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Puerto Rico
`es_PY.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Paraguay
`es_SV.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, El Salvador
`es_US.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, U.S.A.
`es_UY.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Uruguay
`es_VE.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Spanish, Venezuela
`et_EE.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Estonian, Estonia
`fi_FI.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Finnish, Finland
`fr_BE.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	French, Belgium
`fr_CA.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	French, Canada
`fr_CH.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	French, Switzerland
`fr_FR.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	French, France
`fr_LU.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	French, Luxembourg
`gu_IN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Gujarati, India
`he_IL.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Hebrew, Israel
`hi_IN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Hindi, India
`hr_HR.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Croatian, Croatia
`hu_HU.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Hungarian, Hungary
`hy_AM.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Armenian, Armenia
`id_ID.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Indonesian, Indonesia
`is_IS.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Icelandic, Iceland
`it_CH.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Italian, Switzerland
`it_IT.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Italian, Italy
`ja_JP.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Japanese, Japan JIS X 0201:1976, JIS X 0208:1990, JIS X 0212:1990, JIS X 0213:2004, Vendor-defined characters (VDC), User-defined characters (UDC)
`ka_GE.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Georgian, Georgia
`kk_KZ.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Kazakh, Kazakhstan
`kn_IN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Kannada, India
`ko_KR.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Korean, Korea
`ks_IN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Kashmiri, India
`ku_TR.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Kurdish, Turkey
`ku_TR.UTF-8@sorani`	`Unicode 6.0`	Kurdish (Sorani), Turkey
`ky_KG.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Kirghiz, Kyrgyzstan
`lt_LT.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Lithuanian, Lithuania
`lv_LV.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Latvian, Latvia
`mk_MK.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Macedonian, Macedonia
`ml_IN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Malayalam, India
`mr_IN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Marathi, India
`ms_MY.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Malay, Malaysia
`mt_MT.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Maltese, Malta
`nb_NO.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Bokmal, Norway
`nl_BE.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Dutch, Belgium
`nl_NL.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Dutch, Netherlands
`nn_NO.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Nynorsk, Norway
`or_IN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Oriya, India
`pa_IN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Punjabi, India
`pl_PL.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Polish, Poland
`pt_BR.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Portuguese, Brazil
`pt_PT.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Portuguese, Portugal
`ro_RO.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Romanian, Romania
`ru_RU.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Russian, Russia
`ru_UA.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Russian, Ukraine
`sa_IN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Sanskrit, India
`sk_SK.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Slovak, Slovakia
`sl_SI.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Slovenian, Slovenia
`sq_AL.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Albanian, Albania
`sr_ME.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Serbian, Montenegro
`sr_ME.UTF-8@latin`	`Unicode 6.0`	Serbian, Montenegro (Latin)
`sr_RS.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Serbian, Serbia
`sr_RS.UTF-8@latin`	`Unicode 6.0`	Serbian, Serbia (Latin)
`sv_SE.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Swedish, Sweden
`ta_IN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Tamil, India
`te_IN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Telugu, India
`th_TH.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Thai, Thailand
`tr_TR.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Turkish, Turkey
`uk_UA.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Ukrainian, Ukraine
`vi_VN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Vietnamese, Vietnam
`zh_CN.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Simplified Chinese, China
`zh_HK.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong SAR China
`zh_SG.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	Chinese, Singapore
`zh_TW.UTF-8`	`Unicode 6.0`	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
`cs_CZ.UTF-8@euro`	`Unicode 6.0`	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) JIS X 0201:1976, JIS X 0208:1990, Vendor-defined characters (VDC), User-defined characters (UDC)
`ja_JP.eucJP`	`EUC-JP`	Japanese EUC environment. Compliant to UI-OSF Japanese Environment Implementation Agreement Version 1.1 JIS X 0201:1976, JIS X 0208:1990, JIS X 0212:1990 VDC, UDC
`ja_JP.UTF-8@cldr`	`Unicode 6.0`	Japanese, Japan (CLDR) JIS X 0201:1976, JIS X 0208:1990, JIS X 0212:1990, JIS X 0213:2004, VDC, UDC
`ko_KR.EUC`	`KS X 1001`	Korean, Korea
`ko_KR.EUC@dict`	`KS X 1001`	Korean, Korea (dict)
`ko_KR.UTF-8@dict`	`Unicode 6.0`	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`	`Unicode 6.0`	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`	`Unicode 6.0`	Simplified Chinese, China (pinyin)
`zh_CN.UTF-8@radical`	`Unicode 6.0`	Simplified Chinese, China (radical)
`zh_CN.UTF-8@stroke`	`Unicode 6.0`	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`	`Unicode 6.0`	Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong SAR China (radical)
`zh_HK.UTF-8@stroke`	`Unicode 6.0`	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.