Language Identifiers

InstallShield 2024

Project: This information applies to the following project type:

Advanced UI
Basic MSI
InstallScript
InstallScript MSI
InstallScript Object
Merge Module
Suite /Advanced UI

Throughout the InstallShield interface, you must refer to specific languages by their language identifiers, or LCIDs. The identifier is an integer value that identifies a specific language. The language ID is more commonly given as a hexadecimal value, but you must specify the decimal version for Windows Installer.

The following table shows the LCIDs for all of the supported languages. To learn more about language support, see Run-Time Language Support in InstallShield.

Project:Note that Basic MSI and InstallScript MSI installations use different IDs than InstallScript installations.

Edition:Also note that support for Arabic (Saudi Arabia) and Hebrew is available only in Basic MSI, Merge Module, and Suite/Advanced UI projects in the Premier edition.

Language Identifiers

Language Name

Identifier (InstallScript Projects)

Identifier (Windows Installer–Based Projects and Suite/Advanced UI Projects)

Arabic (Saudi Arabia)

(This language is not supported.)

1025

Basque

0x042d

1069

Bulgarian

0x0402

1026

Catalan

0x0403

1027

Chinese (Simplified)

0x0804

2052

Chinese (Traditional)

0x0404

1028

Croatian

0x041a

1050

Czech

0x0405

1029

Danish

0x0406

1030

Dutch

0x0413

1043

English (United States)

0x0409

1033

Finnish

0x040b

1035

French (Canada)

0x0c0c

3084

French (France)

0x040c

1036

German

0x0407

1031

Greek

0x0408

1032

Hebrew

(This language is not supported.)

1037

Hungarian

0x040e

1038

Indonesian

0x0421

1057

Italian

0x0410

1040

Japanese

0x0411

1041

Korean

0x0412

1042

Norwegian

0x0414

1044

Polish

0x0415

1045

Portuguese (Brazil)

0x0416

1046

Portuguese (Portugal)

0x0816

2070

Romanian

0x0418

1048

Russian

0x0419

1049

Serbian (Cyrillic)

0x0c1a

3098

Slovak

0x041b

1051

Slovenian

0x0424

1060

Spanish

0x040a

1034

Swedish

0x041d

1053

Thai

0x041e

1054

Turkish

0x041f

1055

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