locale

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\Locale

Data type

Range

Default value

REG_SZ

(Blank) | 0x1–0x11

(There is no default value for this entry.)

Description

Represents a locale supported by the system.

The locale entry represents a locale supported by the system. A blank value means the locale is supported by the system but is not installed. A non-blank value means the locale is installed, and the value indicates the language group of the locale.

Value

Meaning

(Blank)

The locale is supported by the system but not installed.

0x1

Western Europe

0x2

Central Europe

0x3

Baltic

0x4

Greek

0x5

Cyrillic

0x6

Turkish

0x7

Japanese

0x8

Korean

0x9

Traditional Chinese

0xA

Simplified Chinese

0xB

Thai

0xC

Hebrew

0xD

Arabic

0xE

Vietnamese

0xF

Indic

0x10

Georgian

0x11

Armenian

Note

The locale entry is a variable representing the entries under the Locale subkey. It does not actually appear in the registry. This variable entry displays information that is common to the entries in the Locale subkey.