Custom Locales for Windows Vista/2008/Seven

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Март 10, 2008)

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:03:58 GMT

This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the shipped _Bulgarian Hard-coded "Synthetic" Windows-only Locale_ from the operating system, included in "_locale.nls_".

!! Differences between the Windows hard-coded Bulgarian Locale and the CORRECT Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)
Please see the attached *Comparision between the Bulgarian Windows hard-coded and Custom (correct) Locales.xls* file.

!! Custom Locale (Culture) Files Included
*bg-BG-Correct.v1.0.ldml* - ldml (XML) file for Microsoft Locale Builder
*bg-BG-Correct - Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture).msi* - The above file build as MSI Installer in Microsoft Locale Builder and ready for use as a Custom Locale (Cultrure) in Windows.

!! Creation Tools Used
*Microsoft Locale Builder*
Available at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409]

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Март 10, 2008)

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:58:14 GMT

This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the shipped _Bulgarian Hard-coded "Synthetic" Windows-only Locale_ from the operating system, included in "_locale.nls_".

!! Differences between the Windows hard-coded Bulgarian Locale and the CORRECT Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)
Please see the attached *Comparision between the Bulgarian Windows hard-coded and Custom (correct) Locales.xls* file.

!! Custom Locale (Culture) Files Included
*bg-BG-Correct.v1.0.ldml* - ldml (XML) file for Microsoft Locale Builder
*bg-BG-Correct - Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture).msi* - The above file build as MSI in Microsoft Locale Builder and ready for use as a Custom Locale (Cultrure) in Windows.

!! Creation Tools Used
*Microsoft Locale Builder*
Available at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409]

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Март 10, 2008)

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:55:54 GMT

This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the shipped _Bulgarian Hard-coded "Synthetic" Windows-only Locale_ from the operating system, included in "_locale.nls_".

!! Differences between the Windows hard-coded Bulgarian Locale and the CORRECT Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)
Please see the attached *Comparision between the Bulgarian Windows hard-coded and Custom (correct) Locales.xls* file.

!! Custom Locale (Culture) Files Included
*bg-BG-Correct.v1.0.ldml* - ldml (XML) file for Microsoft Locale Builder
*bg-BG-Correct - Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture).msi* - The above file build as MSI in Microsoft Locale Builder and ready for use as a Custom Locale (Cultrure) in Windows.

!! Creation Tools Used
*Microsoft Locale Builder*
Available at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409]

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Март 10, 2008)

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:54:32 GMT

This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the shipped _Bulgarian Hard-coded "Synthetic" Windows-only Locale_ from the operating system, included in "_locale.nls_".

!! Differences between the Windows hard-coded Bulgarian Locale and the CORRECT Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)
Please see the attached *Comparision between the Bulgarian Windows hard-coded and Custom (correct) Locales.xls* file.

!! Custom Locale (Culture) Files Included
*bg-BG-Correct.v1.0.ldml* - ldml (XML) file for Microsoft Locale Builder
*bg-BG-Correct - Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture).msi* - The above file build as MSI in Microsoft Locale Builder and ready for use as a Custom Locale (Cultrure) in Windows.

!! Creation Tools Used
*Microsoft Locale Builder*
Available at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409]

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Март 10, 2008)

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:42:16 GMT

This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the shipped _Bulgarian Hard-coded "Synthetic" Windows-only Locale_ from the operating system, included in "_locale.nls_".

!! Differences between the Windows hard-coded Bulgarian Locale and the CORRECT Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)
Please see the attached *Comparision between the Bulgarian Windows hard-coded and Custom (correct) Locales.xls* file.

!! Custom Locale (Culture) Files Included
*bg-BG-Correct.v1.0.ldml*

!! Creation Tools Used
*Microsoft Locale Builder*
Available at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409]

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Март 10, 2008)

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:40:25 GMT

This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the shipped _Bulgarian Hard-coded "Synthetic" Windows-only Locale_ from the operating system, included in "_locale.nls_".

!! Differences between the Windows hard-coded Bulgarian Locale and the CORRECT Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)
Please see the attached *Comparision between the Bulgarian Windows hard-coded and Custom (correct) Locales.xls* file.

!! Custom Locale (Culture) Files Included
*bg-BG-Correct.v1.0.ldml*

!! Creation Tools Used
*Microsoft Locale Builder*
Available at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409]

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Март 10, 2008)

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:39:17 GMT

This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the shipped _Bulgarian Hard-coded "Synthetic" Windows-only Locale_ from the operating system, included in "_locale.nls_".

!! Differences between the Windows hard-coded Bulgarian Locale and the CORRECT Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)
Please see the attached *Comparision between the Bulgarian Windows hard-coded and Custom (correct) Locales.xls* file.

!! Custom Locale (Culture) Files Included
*bg-BG-Correct.v1.0.ldml*

!! Creation Tools Used
*Microsoft Locale Builder*
Available at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409]

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Февруари 14, 2009)

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:38:35 GMT

This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the shipped _Bulgarian Hard-coded "Synthetic" Windows-only Locale_ from the operating system, included in "_locale.nls_".

!! Differences between the Windows hard-coded Bulgarian Locale and the CORRECT Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)
Please see the attached *Comparision between the Bulgarian Windows hard-coded and Custom (correct) Locales.xls* file.

!! Custom Locale (Culture) Files Included
*bg-BG-Correct.v1.0.ldml*

!! Creation Tools Used
*Microsoft Locale Builder*
Available at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409]

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Март 01, 2008)

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:36:51 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Март 01, 2008)

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:35:15 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Март 01, 2008)

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:30:21 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Март 01, 2008)

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:29:47 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Март 01, 2008)

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:27:51 GMT

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Март 01, 2008)

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 21:23:04 GMT

This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the shipped _Bulgarian Hard-coded "Synthetic" Windows-only Locale_ from the operating system, included in "_locale.nls_".

!! Custom Locale (Culture) Files Included
*bg-BG-Correct.v1.0.ldml*

!! Creation Tools Used
*Microsoft Locale Builder*
Available at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409]

UPDATED RELEASE: Example Custom Locale (Culture) Files v0.1 (Mar 05, 2008)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:58:49 GMT

!! Other locales
Check the Releases tab to see other cultures, this is a wrap up of various locales that I'll try to refresh on occasion.

!! Contents
Despite the "Type" below, the .zip includes the source files and also the binary files. As the license says, these files are all "as-is".

!! Locales Included in this sample
*Somewhat Reasonable Quality:*
eo-US - Esperanto (United States)
haw-US - Hawaiian - I have a Hawaiian coworker and needed test data.
de-NL - German (Netherlands) - An OEM made me curious so I made one to play with
en-NL - English (Netherlands)
gd-GB - Scottich Gaelic (UK)

*Ones that need work:*
(email me to help make them better)
chr-US - Cherokee that I was playing with for non-Latn fonts
lkt-US - Lakota, from a coworker.
myn-MX - Yukatek Maya (Mexico) - Not sure what the country code should be.
fj-FJ - Fijiian (Fiji) Michael kept using Fijiian (Fiji) as a sample, so I
had to make one. I expect that the formatting values could be wrong.
en-FJ - English (Fiji) "The Web" told me that English is also spoken in Fiji,
and frankly that was easier.

*For Fun:*
valley-GIRL - Like, you already know this locale. Micheal Kaplan asked me to include this one.
tlh-Latn-US - Klingon (Latin script) - Just for fun.
tlh-pIqaD-US - Klingon (pIqaD script) - Just for more fun.

*For Testing:*
t-US - Tiny amounts of data, which doesn't really work well.
x-big-US-Locale - Unreasonably long strings to abuse buffers.

*Font included*
pIqaD.ttf - For the Klingon pIqaD locale. I made it myself, and it mostly works,
but I know very little about fonts so it doesn't validate well and some
apps may get unhappy with it.

*Keyboard*
US-Kling.msi installs a Klingon pIqaD keyboard.

!! Tools used

The *Microsoft Locale Builder* tool is available from:
[url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409]

The *Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator* tool is available at:
[url:http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx]

UPDATED RELEASE: Example Custom Locale (Culture) Files v0.1 (Mar 05, 2008)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:57:13 GMT

Despite the "Type" below, the .zip includes the source files and also the binary files. As the license says, these files are all "as-is".

!! Locales Included in this sample
*Somewhat Reasonable Quality:*
eo-US - Esperanto (United States)
haw-US - Hawaiian - I have a Hawaiian coworker and needed test data.
de-NL - German (Netherlands) - An OEM made me curious so I made one to play with
en-NL - English (Netherlands)
gd-GB - Scottich Gaelic (UK)

*Ones that need work:*
(email me to help make them better)
chr-US - Cherokee that I was playing with for non-Latn fonts
lkt-US - Lakota, from a coworker.
myn-MX - Yukatek Maya (Mexico) - Not sure what the country code should be.
fj-FJ - Fijiian (Fiji) Michael kept using Fijiian (Fiji) as a sample, so I
had to make one. I expect that the formatting values could be wrong.
en-FJ - English (Fiji) "The Web" told me that English is also spoken in Fiji,
and frankly that was easier.

*For Fun:*
valley-GIRL - Like, you already know this locale. Micheal Kaplan asked me to include this one.
tlh-Latn-US - Klingon (Latin script) - Just for fun.
tlh-pIqaD-US - Klingon (pIqaD script) - Just for more fun.

*For Testing:*
t-US - Tiny amounts of data, which doesn't really work well.
x-big-US-Locale - Unreasonably long strings to abuse buffers.

*Font included*
pIqaD.ttf - For the Klingon pIqaD locale. I made it myself, and it mostly works,
but I know very little about fonts so it doesn't validate well and some
apps may get unhappy with it.

*Keyboard*
US-Kling.msi installs a Klingon pIqaD keyboard.

!! Tools used

The *Microsoft Locale Builder* tool is available from:
[url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409]

The *Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator* tool is available at:
[url:http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx]

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Mar 01, 2008)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:56:32 GMT

This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the shipped _Bulgarian Hard-coded "Synthetic" Windows-only Locale_ from the operating system, included in "_locale.nls_".

!! Custom Locale (Culture) Files Included
*bg-BG-Correct.v1.0.ldml*

!! Creation Tools Used
*Microsoft Locale Builder*
Available at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409]

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Mar 10, 2008)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:26:26 GMT

This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the shipped _Bulgarian Hard-coded "Synthetic" Windows-only Locale_ from the operating system, included in "_locale.nls_".

!! Custom Locale (Culture) Files Included
*bg-BG-Correct.v1.0.ldml*

!! Creation Tools Used
*Microsoft Locale Builder*
Available at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409]

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Mar 10, 2008)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:25:08 GMT

This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the shipped _Bulgarian Hard-coded "Synthetic" Windows-only Locale_ included in "_locale.nls_".

!! Custom Locale (Culture) Files Included
*bg-BG-Correct.v1.0.ldml*

!! Creation Tools Used
*Microsoft Locale Builder*
Available at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409]

UPDATED RELEASE: Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture) v1.0 (Mar 10, 2008)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:07:19 GMT

This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the _Bulgarian Hard-coded Windows Locale_ included in "_locale.nls_".

!! Custom Locale (Culture) Files Included
*bg-BG-Correct.v1.0.ldml*

!! Creation Tools Used
*Microsoft Locale Builder*
Available at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409]