by Michael S. Kaplan, published on 2012/10/26 07:01 -04:00, original URI: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2012/10/26/10362603.aspx
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Amazing!
Windows 8 is out now, and generally available!
And now, just 12 years after shipping MUI Language Packs only for Universal, Language Packs are now directly available to any legal copy of Windows 8!
RTM Language Packs:
| LCID | Name | Display Name | Native Name |
| 0401 | ar-SA | Arabic (Saudi Arabia) | العربية (المملكة العربية السعودية) |
| 0402 | bg-BG | Bulgarian (Bulgaria) | български (България) |
| 0804 | zh-CN | Chinese (People's Republic of China) | 中文(中华人民共和国) |
| 0404 | zh-TW | Chinese (Taiwan) | 中文(台灣) |
| 041a | hr-HR | Croatian (Croatia) | hrvatski (Hrvatska) |
| 0405 | cs-CZ | Czech (Czech Republic) | čeština (Česká republika) |
| 0406 | da-DK | Danish (Denmark) | dansk (Danmark) |
| 0413 | nl-NL | Dutch (Netherlands) | Nederlands (Nederland) |
| 0409 | en-US | English (United States) | English (United States) |
| 0425 | et-EE | Estonian (Estonia) | eesti (Eesti) |
| 040b | fi-FI | Finnish (Finland) | suomi (Suomi) |
| 040c | fr-FR | French (France) | français (France) |
| 0407 | de-DE | German (Germany) | Deutsch (Deutschland) |
| 0408 | el-GR | Greek (Greece) | ελληνικά (Ελλάδα) |
| 040d | he-IL | Hebrew (Israel) | עברית (ישראל) |
| 040e | hu-HU | Hungarian (Hungary) | magyar (Magyarország) |
| 0410 | it-IT | Italian (Italy) | italiano (Italia) |
| 0411 | ja-JP | Japanese (Japan) | 日本語 (日本) |
| 0412 | ko-KR | Korean (Korea) | 한국어 (대한민국) |
| 0426 | lv-LV | Latvian (Latvia) | latviešu (Latvija) |
| 0427 | lt-LT | Lithuanian (Lithuania) | lietuvių (Lietuva) |
| 0414 | nb-NO | Norwegian, Bokmål (Norway) | norsk, bokmål (Norge) |
| 0415 | pl-PL | Polish (Poland) | polski (Polska) |
| 0416 | pt-BR | Portuguese (Brazil) | Português (Brasil) |
| 0816 | pt-PT | Portuguese (Portugal) | português (Portugal) |
| 0418 | ro-RO | Romanian (Romania) | română (România) |
| 0419 | ru-RU | Russian (Russia) | русский (Россия) |
| 081a | sr-Latn-CS | Serbian (Latin, Serbia and Montenegro (Former)) | srpski (Srbija i Crna Gora (Prethodno)) |
| 041b | sk-SK | Slovak (Slovakia) | slovenčina (Slovenská republika) |
| 0424 | sl-SI | Slovenian (Slovenia) | slovenski (Slovenija) |
| 0c0a | es-ES | Spanish (Spain) | español (España) |
| 041d | sv-SE | Swedish (Sweden) | svenska (Sverige) |
| 041e | th-TH | Thai (Thailand) | ไทย (ไทย) |
| 041f | tr-TR | Turkish (Turkey) | Türkçe (Türkiye) |
| 0422 | uk-UA | Ukrainian (Ukraine) | україньска (Україна) |
Wave 0 Language Interface Packs (also available at RTM):
| 042d | eu-ES | Basque (Basque) | euskara (euskara) |
|
0403 |
ca-ES | Catalan (Catalan) | català (català) |
| 0456 | gl-ES | Galician (Galician) | galego (galego) |
Wave 1 Language Interface packs (available now, at Windows 8 GA):
| 042c | az-Latn-AZ | Azerbaijani (Latin, Azerbaijan) | Azərbaycanılı (Azərbaycanca) |
| 141a | sq-AL | Albanian (Albania) |
shqipe (Shqipëria) |
| 041c | bs-Latn-BA |
Bosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina) |
bosanski (Bosna i Hercegovina) |
| 0437 | ka-GE |
Georgian (Georgia) |
ქართული (საქართველო) |
| 0439 | hi-iN | Hindi (India) |
हिंदी (भारत) |
| 040f | is-IS | Icelandic (Iceland) | íslenska (Ísland) |
| 0421 | id-ID | Indonesian (Indonesia) | Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesia) |
| 043f | kk-KZ | Kazakh (Kazakhstan) | Қазақ (Қазақстан) |
| 042f | mk-MK | Macedonian (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) | македонски јазик (Македонија) |
| 043e | ms-mY | Malay (Malaysia) | Bahasa Malaysia (Malaysia) |
| 044c | ml-IN | Malayalam (India) | മലയാളം (ഭാരതം) |
| 0814 | nn-NO | Norwegian, Nynorsk (Norway) | norsk, nynorsk (Noreg) |
| 0429 | fa-IR | Persian (Iran) | فارسى (ايران) |
| 0c1a | sr-Cyrl-CS | Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia) |
српски (Србија) |
| 045b | si-LK | Sinhala (Sri Lanka) | සිංහ (ශ්රී ලංකා) |
| 044a | te-IN | Telugu (India) | తెలుగు (భారత దేశం) |
| 0803 | ca-ES-valencia | Valencian (Spain) | Valencià (Espanya) |
| 042a | vi-VN | Vietnamese (Vietnam) | Tiếng Việt (Việt Nam) |
| 0452 | cy-GB |
Welsh - United Kingdom |
Cymraeg (Y Deyrnas Unedig)
|
Every single one of these languauges is now available to the world!
Let's grab Icelandic!
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You can now do this with any language!
even the full Language Packs.
Woo hoo!
Now how's that for a great Windows 8 international language feature no one else has mentioned?!? :-)
metathinker on 26 Oct 2012 8:14 AM:
I was *so* excited about the Icelandic localization...
until I opened classic Control Panel and saw these strings:
- Save backup copies of your files with File History
- Find and fix problems
- View network status and tasks
- Choose homegroup and sharing options
- Adjust commonly used mobility settings
Well, at least the Windows feature I work on had all its UI text translated...
Alex Cohn on 26 Oct 2012 11:36 AM:
Hey-ho! That's great, and a nice followup to the good news of your return from the hospital!
Jan Kučera on 27 Oct 2012 11:26 AM:
Woo hoo!
Yet how can it be Malayalam but not Tamil? :)
Mihai on 27 Oct 2012 6:50 PM:
This is wonderfull, about time!
Although MacOS X shipped with (free) localized UI for along time now, Windows has now way more languages available.
contextfree on 27 Oct 2012 7:05 PM:
Here's a scenario I wish were supported:
I can read English and Japanese. English is my native language, but there are some apps in the store for which Japanese is really the "native language" of the app itself (and its authors), but there's also a sloppily translated (maybe machine translated) English version in the store. In these cases I'd much prefer to see the Japanese version by default. I wish there were a way (maybe there is?) for app authors to specify preferred languages for an app and have those languages be used by default in some cases even when it's not my #1 preferred language in general, but is somewhere else on my list of languages.
Random guy on 28 Oct 2012 9:36 PM:
sq-AL = Albanian (Albania)
Doug Ewell on 29 Oct 2012 10:41 AM:
@contextfree: Devil's advocate: what if the English translation were excellent? Would you still want the Japanese version? If you wanted the English instead, how would the OS know?
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