Locales and code pages supported
The following table shows the locales that COBOL for Windows supports and the code
pages that are valid for each locale.
Purpose
The first column, Locale name, shows the valid combinations of ISO language code and ISO country code (language_COUNTRY) that are supported.
The second column shows the associated language, and the third column shows the associated country or area.
The fourth column, ASCII code pages, shows the ASCII code pages that are valid as the code page ID for the locale with the corresponding language_COUNTRY value.
| Locale name | Language | Country or area | ASCII code pages | Language group |
| ar_AA | Arabic | Arabic Countries | IBM-864, IBM-1256 | Arabic |
| be_BY | Byelorussian | Belarus | IBM-866, IBM-1251 | Latin 5 |
| bg_BG | Bulgarian | Bulgaria | IBM-855, IBM-1251 | Latin 5 |
| ca_ES | Catalan | Spain | IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| cs_CZ | Czech | Czech Republic | IBM-852, IBM-1250 | Latin 2 |
| da_DK | Danish | Denmark | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| de_CH | German | Switzerland | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| de_DE | German | Germany | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| el_GR | Greek | Greece | IBM-1253 | Greek |
| en_AU | English | Australia | IBM-437, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| en_BE | English | Belgium | IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| en_GB | English | United Kingdom | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| en_JP | English | Japan | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| en_US | English | United States | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| en_ZA | English | South Africa | IBM-437, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| es_ES | Spanish | Spain | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| fi_FI | Finnish | Finland | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| fr_BE | French | Belgium | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| fr_CA | French | Canada | IBM-863, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| fr_CH | French | Switzerland | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| fr_FR | French | France | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| hr_HR | Croatian | Croatia | IBM-852, IBM-1250 | Latin 2 |
| hu_HU | Hungarian | Hungary | IBM-852, IBM-1250 | Latin 2 |
| is_IS | Icelandic | Iceland | IBM-861, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| it_CH | Italian | Switzerland | IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| it_IT | Italian | Italy | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| iw_IL | Hebrew | Israel | IBM-862, IBM-1255 | Hebrew |
| ja_JP | Japanese | Japan | IBM-943 | Ideographic languages |
| ko_KR | Korean | Korea, Republic of | IBM-1363 | Ideographic languages |
| lt_LT | Lithuanian | Lithuania | IBM-1257 | Lithuanian |
| lv_LV | Latvian | Latvia | IBM-1257 | Latvian |
| mk_MK | Macedonian | Macedonia | IBM-855, IBM-1251 | Latin 5 |
| nl_BE | Dutch | Belgium | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| nl_NL | Dutch | Netherlands | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| no_NO | Norwegian | Norway | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| pl_PL | Polish | Poland | IBM-852, IBM-1250 | Latin 2 |
| pt_BR | Portuguese | Brazil | IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| pt_PT | Portuguese | Portugal | IBM-860, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| ro_RO | Romanian | Romania | IBM-852, IBM-850, IBM-1250 | Latin 2 |
| ru_RU | Russian | Russian federation | IBM-866, IBM-1251 | Latin 5 |
| sh_SP | Serbian (Latin) | Serbia | IBM-852, IBM-1250 | Latin 2 |
| sk_SK | Slovak | Slovakia | IBM-852, IBM-1250 | Latin 2 |
| sl_SL | Slovenian | Slovenia | IBM-852, IBM-1250 | Latin 2 |
| sq_AL | Albanian | Albania | IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| sv_SE | Swedish | Sweden | IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 | Latin 1 |
| th_TH | Thai | Thailand | IBM-874 | Thai |
| tr_TR | Turkish | Turkey | IBM-857, IBM-1254 | Turkish |
| uk_UA | Ukrainian | Ukraine | IBM-866, IBM-1251 | Latin 5 |
| zh_CN | Chinese (simplified) | China | IBM-1386 | Ideographic languages |
| zh_TW | Chinese (traditional) | Taiwan | IBM-950 | Ideographic languages |