Default code page for each language version of Windows

Question

Where can I find information about which code page is default for each language version of Windows? I.e the "ANSI" code page for each language version.

I've found the Code Pages Supported by Windows, but I cannot find the defaults for each language.

I'm guessing that for instance, Windows-1253 (Greek) is the default when installing the Greek language version. But what about the other code pages? And is Windows-1253 the default for any other language version?

Answer 1

Following Mihai Nita's advice, I extracted the following data. For brevity, I summarized some languages with many variants into xx-*.

These are ISO 639-1 language codes. Wikipedia also has more info on the code pages.

Windows-1250 / Latin-2 (Central European)

bs, bs-Latn, bs-Latn-BA, cs, cs-CZ, hr, hr-BA, hr-HR, hu, hu-HU, hu-HU_technl, pl, pl-PL, ro, ro-MD, ro-RO, sk, sk-SK, sl, sl-SI, sq, sq-AL, sq-MK, sq-XK, sr, sr-Latn, sr-Latn-BA, sr-Latn-ME, sr-Latn-RS, sr-Latn-XK, tk, tk-TM

Windows-1251 (Cyrillic)

az-Cyrl, az-Cyrl-AZ, ba, ba-RU, be, be-BY, bg, bg-BG, bs-Cyrl, bs-Cyrl-BA, ky, ky-KG, mk, mk-MK, mn, mn-Cyrl, mn-MN, ru, ru-BY, ru-KG, ru-KZ, ru-MD, ru-RU, ru-UA, sah, sah-RU, sr-Cyrl, sr-Cyrl-BA, sr-Cyrl-ME, sr-Cyrl-RS, sr-Cyrl-XK, tg, tg-Cyrl, tg-Cyrl-TJ, tt, tt-RU, uk, uk-UA, uz-Cyrl, uz-Cyrl-UZ

Windows-1252 / Latin-1 (Western European)

af, af-NA, af-ZA, arn, arn-CL, bin, bin-NG, br, br-FR, ca, ca-AD, ca-ES, ca-es-*, ca-FR, ca-IT, co, co-FR, cy, cy-GB, da, da-DK, da-GL, de, de-*, dsb, dsb-DE, en, en-*, es, es-*, eu, eu-ES, ff, ff-*, fi, fi-*, fil, fil-PH, fo, fo-FO, fr, fr-*, fy, fy-NL, ga, ga-IE, gd, gd-GB, gl, gl-ES, gn, gn-PY, gsw, gsw-CH, gsw-FR, gsw-LI, ha, ha-*, haw, haw-US, hsb, hsb-DE, ibb, ibb-NG, id, id-ID, ig, ig-NG, is, is-IS, it, it-CH, it-IT, it-SM, iu, iu-Latn, iu-Latn-CA, jv, jv-Java, jv-Java-ID, jv-Latn, jv-Latn-ID, kl, kl-GL, kr, kr-Latn, kr-Latn-NG, la, la-001, lb, lb-LU, moh, moh-CA, ms, ms-BN, ms-MY, ms-SG, nb, nb-NO, nb-SJ, nl, nl-*, nn, nn-NO, no, nso, nso-ZA, oc, oc-FR, pap, pap-029, pt, pt-*, quc, quc-Latn, quc-Latn-GT, quz, quz-BO, quz-EC, quz-PE, rm, rm-CH, rw, rw-RW, se, se-FI, se-NO, se-SE, sma, sma-NO, sma-SE, smj, smj-NO, smj-SE, smn, smn-FI, sms, sms-FI, sv, sv-AX, sv-FI, sv-SE, sw, sw-CD, sw-KE, sw-TZ, sw-UG, tn, tn-BW, tn-ZA, tzm, tzm-Latn, tzm-Latn-DZ, wo, wo-SN, x-IV_mathan, xh, xh-ZA, yo, yo-BJ, yo-NG, zu, zu-ZA

Windows-1253 (Greek)

el, el-CY, el-GR

Windows-1254 (Turkish)

az, az-Latn, az-Latn-AZ, tr, tr-CY, tr-TR, uz, uz-Latn, uz-Latn-UZ

Windows-1255 (Hebrew)

he, he-IL

Windows-1256 (Arabic)

ar, ar-*, fa, fa-IR, ku, ku-Arab, ku-Arab-IQ, pa-Arab, pa-Arab-PK, prs, prs-AF, sd, sd-Arab, sd-Arab-PK, tzm-Arab, tzm-Arab-MA, ug, ug-CN, ur, ur-IN, ur-PK

Windows-1257 (Baltic)

et, et-EE, lt, lt-LT, lv, lv-LV

Windows 1258 (Vietnamese)

vi, vi-VN

CP874: ISO 8859-11 (Thai)

th, th-TH

CP932: Shift JIS (Japanese)

ja, ja-JP, ja-JP_radstr

CP936: GBK (Chinese)

zh, zh-CN, zh-CN_phoneb, zh-CN_stroke, zh-Hans, zh-Hans-HK, zh-Hans-MO, zh-SG, zh-SG_phoneb, zh-SG_stroke

CP949: Unified Hangul Code (Korean)

ko, ko-KR

CP950: Big5 (Chinese)

zh-Hant, zh-HK, zh-HK_radstr, zh-MO, zh-MO_radstr, zh-MO_stroke, zh-TW, zh-TW_pronun, zh-TW_radstr

Answer 2

You can enumerate all the locales (using EnumSystemLocales/EnumSystemLocalesEx), then get the ANSI code page (GetLocaleInfo/GetLocaleInfoEx with LOCALE_IDEFAULTANSICODEPAGE).