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Locales

Locale values returned by app.getLocale().

Electron uses Chromium’s l10n_util library to fetch the locale. Possible values are listed below:

Language Code Language Name
af Afrikaans
am Amharic
ar Arabic
az Azerbaijani
be Belarusian
bg Bulgarian
bh Bihari
bn Bengali
br Breton
bs Bosnian
ca Catalan
co Corsican
cs Czech
cy Welsh
da Danish
de German
de-AT German (Austria)
de-CH German (Switzerland)
de-DE German (Germany)
el Greek
en English
en-AU English (Australia)
en-CA English (Canada)
en-GB English (UK)
en-NZ English (New Zealand)
en-US English (US)
en-ZA English (South Africa)
eo Esperanto
es Spanish
es-419 Spanish (Latin America)
et Estonian
eu Basque
fa Persian
fi Finnish
fil Filipino
fo Faroese
fr French
fr-CA French (Canada)
fr-CH French (Switzerland)
fr-FR French (France)
fy Frisian
ga Irish
gd Scots Gaelic
gl Galician
gn Guarani
gu Gujarati
ha Hausa
haw Hawaiian
he Hebrew
hi Hindi
hr Croatian
hu Hungarian
hy Armenian
ia Interlingua
id Indonesian
is Icelandic
it Italian
it-CH Italian (Switzerland)
it-IT Italian (Italy)
ja Japanese
jw Javanese
ka Georgian
kk Kazakh
km Cambodian
kn Kannada
ko Korean
ku Kurdish
ky Kyrgyz
la Latin
ln Lingala
lo Laothian
lt Lithuanian
lv Latvian
mk Macedonian
ml Malayalam
mn Mongolian
mo Moldavian
mr Marathi
ms Malay
mt Maltese
nb Norwegian (Bokmal)
ne Nepali
nl Dutch
nn Norwegian (Nynorsk)
no Norwegian
oc Occitan
om Oromo
or Oriya
pa Punjabi
pl Polish
ps Pashto
pt Portuguese
pt-BR Portuguese (Brazil)
pt-PT Portuguese (Portugal)
qu Quechua
rm Romansh
ro Romanian
ru Russian
sd Sindhi
sh Serbo-Croatian
si Sinhalese
sk Slovak
sl Slovenian
sn Shona
so Somali
sq Albanian
sr Serbian
st Sesotho
su Sundanese
sv Swedish
sw Swahili
ta Tamil
te Telugu
tg Tajik
th Thai
ti Tigrinya
tk Turkmen
to Tonga
tr Turkish
tt Tatar
tw Twi
ug Uighur
uk Ukrainian
ur Urdu
uz Uzbek
vi Vietnamese
xh Xhosa
yi Yiddish
yo Yoruba
zh Chinese
zh-CN Chinese (Simplified)
zh-TW Chinese (Traditional)
zu Zulu

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