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COBOL for Windows, Version 7.5, Programming Guide


Locales and code pages that are supported

The following table shows the locales that COBOL for Windows supports and the code pages that are valid for each locale.

Table 22. Supported locales and code pages
Locale name1 Language2 Country or region3 ASCII code pages4 EBCDIC code pages5 Language group
ar_AA Arabic Arabic countries IBM-864, IBM-1256 IBM-16804, IBM-420 Arabic
be_BY Byelorussian Belarus IBM-866, IBM-1251 IBM-1025, IBM-1154 Latin 5
bg_BG Bulgarian Bulgaria IBM-855, IBM-1251 IBM-1025, IBM-1154 Latin 5
ca_ES Catalan Spain IBM-850, IBM-5348, IBM-1252 IBM-285, IBM-1145 Latin 1
cs_CZ Czech Czech Republic IBM-852, IBM-1250 IBM-870, IBM-1153 Latin 2
da_DK Danish Denmark IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 IBM-277, IBM-1142 Latin 1
de_CH German Switzerland IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 IBM-500, IBM-1148 Latin 1
de_DE German Germany IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-5348, IBM-1252 IBM-273, IBM- 1141 Latin 1
el_GR Greek Greece IBM-1253 IBM-4971, IBM-875 Greek
en_AU English Australia IBM-437, IBM-1252 IBM-037, IBM-1140 Latin 1
en_BE English Belgium IBM-850, IBM-5348, IBM-1252 IBM-500, IBM-1148 Latin 1
en_GB English United Kingdom IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 IBM-037, IBM-1140 Latin 1
en_JP English Japan IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 IBM-037, IBM-1140 Latin 1
en_US English United States IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 IBM-037, IBM-1140 Latin 1
en_ZA English South Africa IBM-437, IBM-1252 IBM-037, IBM-1140 Latin 1
es_ES Spanish Spain IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-5348, IBM-1252 IBM-284, IBM-1145 Latin 1
et_EE Estonian Estonia IBM-1257 IBM-1157 Estonian
fi_FI Finnish Finland IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-5348, IBM-1252 IBM-278, IBM-1143 Latin 1
fr_BE French Belgium IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-5348, IBM-1252 IBM-297, IBM-1148 Latin 1
fr_CA French Canada IBM-863, IBM-850, IBM-1252 IBM-037, IBM-1140 Latin 1
fr_CH French Switzerland IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 IBM-500, IBM-1148 Latin 1
fr_FR French France IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-5348, IBM-1252 IBM-297, IBM-1148 Latin 1
hr_HR Croatian Croatia IBM-852, IBM-1250 IBM-870, IBM-1153 Latin 2
hu_HU Hungarian Hungary IBM-852, IBM-1250 IBM-870, IBM-1153 Latin 2
is_IS Icelandic Iceland IBM-861, IBM-850, IBM-1252 IBM-871, IBM-1149 Latin 1
it_CH Italian Switzerland IBM-850, IBM-1252 IBM-500, IBM-1148 Latin 1
it_IT Italian Italy IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-5348, IBM-1252 IBM-280, IBM-1144 Latin 1
iw_IL Hebrew Israel IBM-862, IBM-1255 IBM-12712, IBM-424 Hebrew
ja_JP Japanese Japan IBM-943 IBM-930, IBM-939, IBM-1390, IBM-1399 Ideographic languages
ko_KR Korean Korea, Republic of IBM-1363 IBM-933, IBM-1364 Ideographic languages
lt_LT Lithuanian Lithuania IBM-1257 IBM-1112, IBM-1156 Lithuanian
lv_LV Latvian Latvia IBM-1257 IBM-1112, IBM-1156 Latvian
mk_MK Macedonian Macedonia, IBM-855, IBM-1251 IBM-1025, IBM-1154 Latin 5
nl_BE Dutch Belgium IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-5348, IBM-1252 IBM-500, IBM-1148 Latin 1
nl_NL Dutch Netherlands IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-5348, IBM-1252 IBM-037, IBM-1140 Latin 1
no_NO Norwegian Norway IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 IBM-277, IBM-1142 Latin 1
pl_PL Polish Poland IBM-852, IBM-1250 IBM-870, IBM-1153 Latin 2
pt_BR Portuguese Brazil IBM-850, IBM-1252 IBM-037, IBM-1140 Latin 1
pt_PT Portuguese Portugal IBM-860, IBM-850, IBM-5348, IBM-1252 IBM-037, IBM-1140 Latin 1
ro_RO Romanian Romania IBM-852, IBM-850, IBM-1250 IBM-870, IBM-1153 Latin 2
ru_RU Russian Russian federation IBM-866, IBM-1251 IBM-1025, IBM-1154 Latin 5
sh_SP Serbian (Latin) Serbia IBM-852, IBM-1250 IBM-870, IBM-1153 Latin 2
sk_SK Slovak Slovakia IBM-852, IBM-1250 IBM-870, IBM-1153 Latin 2
sl_SI Slovenian Slovenia IBM-852, IBM-1250 IBM-870, IBM-1153 Latin 2
sq_AL Albanian Albania IBM-850, IBM-1252 IBM-500, IBM-1148 Latin 1
sv_SE Swedish Sweden IBM-437, IBM-850, IBM-1252 IBM-278, IBM-1143 Latin 1
th_TH Thai Thailand IBM-874 IBM-9030 Thai
tr_TR Turkish Turkey IBM-857, IBM-1254 IBM-1026, IBM-1155 Turkish
uk_UA Ukranian Ukraine IBM-866, IBM-1251 IBM-1123, IBM-1154 Latin 5
zh_CN Chinese (simplified) China IBM-1386 IBM-1388 Ideographic languages
zh_TW Chinese (traditional) Taiwan IBM-950 IBM-1371, IBM-937 Ideographic languages
  1. Shows the valid combinations of ISO language code and ISO country code (language_COUNTRY) that are supported.
  2. Shows the associated language.
  3. Shows the associated country or region.
  4. Shows the ASCII code pages that are valid as the code-page ID for the locale that has the corresponding language_COUNTRY value.
  5. Shows the EBCDIC code pages that are valid as the code-page ID for the locale that has the corresponding language_COUNTRY value. These code pages are valid as content for the EBCDIC_CODEPAGE environment variable. If the EBCDIC_CODEPAGE environment variable is not set, the rightmost code-page entry shown in this column is selected by default as the EBCDIC code page for the corresponding locale.

related tasks
Specifying the code page with a locale
Using environment variables to specify a locale


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