Custom Locales for Windows Vista/2008

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

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:58:49 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)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:57:13 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)

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:56:32 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 19:26:26 GMT

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

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:25:08 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 19:07:19 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]

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

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:57:27 GMT

This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the _Bulgarian Hardcoded 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]

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

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:13:23 GMT

!! Description
This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the _Bulgarian Hardcoded 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]

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

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:12:46 GMT

!! Description
This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the _Bulgarian Hardcoded 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].

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

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:11:51 GMT

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

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:11:27 GMT

!! Description
This is a *_Bulgarian Custom Locale (Culture)_* with *correct* Bulgarian Locale Information, *despite* the _Bulgarian Hardcoded 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]

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

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:09:26 GMT

UPDATED WIKI: Home

RDPK7 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:06:12 GMT

Custom Locales for Windows Vista

This is a place to share custom locales (custom cultures) that you make for windows. No warranties or anything like that. I’m seeding it with some locales that I’ve created for testing and playing around with, but they aren’t guaranteed to work for any particular user.

If you have a custom locale that you’d like to add, let me know and I’ll give you permission to add it here. Partial locales are fine, hopefully other people can fill in the gaps, and maybe we’ll end up with a useful set of data here.

You can make your own custom locale with the Microsoft Locale Builder tool at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409 It says “beta”, but it works fine.

To use a custom locale you’ll have to be running Windows Vista. I’m sharing the generated .ldml data file and my generated .nlp files. The easiest (but unsupported) way to get the locales installed is to just copy them to %windir%\globalization and add an appropriate registry entry.

Locales Included:

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, I don't remember where I got the data from.
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.

Other Resources:

"My" blog is at http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnste
http://www.languagegeek.com/

Tools

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

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

Requests

If you need another locale, please use the tools above. Let me know when you have something working and we can release it in this project. Same thing for bugs :)

UPDATED WIKI: Home

RDPK7 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:05:32 GMT

Custom Locales for Windows Vista

Locales Included:

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.

Other Resources:

"My" blog is at http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnste
http://www.languagegeek.com/

Tools

The Microsoft Locale Builder tool is available at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409

The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator tool is available from
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx

Requests

If you need another locale, please use the tools above. Let me know when you have something working and we can release it in this project. Same thing for bugs :)

UPDATED WIKI: Home

RDPK7 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:04:16 GMT

Custom Locales for Windows Vista

This is a place to share custom locales (custom cultures) that you make for windows. No warranties or anything like that. I’m seeding it with some locales that I’ve created for testing and playing around with, but they aren’t guaranteed to work for any particular user.

If you have a custom locale that you’d like to add, let me know and I’ll give you permission to add it here. Partial locales are fine, hopefully other people can fill in the gaps, and maybe we’ll end up with a useful set of data here.

You can make your own custom locale with the Microsoft Locale Builder tool at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409] It says “beta”, but it works fine.

To use a custom locale you’ll have to be running Windows Vista. I’m sharing the generated .ldml data file and my generated .nlp files. The easiest (but unsupported) way to get the locales installed is to just copy them to %windir%\globalization and add an appropriate registry entry.

Locales Included:

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.

Other Resources:

"My" blog is at http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnste
http://www.languagegeek.com/

Tools

The Microsoft Locale Builder is available at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409

The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator tool is available from
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx

Requests

If you need another locale, please use the tools above. Let me know when you have something working and we can release it in this project. Same thing for bugs :)

UPDATED WIKI: Home

RDPK7 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:03:55 GMT

Custom Locales for Windows Vista

project:description

Locales Included:

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.

Other Resources:

"My" blog is at http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnste
http://www.languagegeek.com/

Tools

Requests

If you need another locale, please use the tools above. Let me know when you have something working and we can release it in this project. Same thing for bugs :)

UPDATED WIKI: Home

RDPK7 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:01:13 GMT

Custom Locales for Windows Vista

This is a place to share custom locales (custom cultures) that you make for windows. No warranties or anything like that. I’m seeding it with some locales that I’ve created for testing and playing around with, but they aren’t guaranteed to work for any particular user.

If you have a custom locale that you’d like to add, let me know and I’ll give you permission to add it here. Partial locales are fine, hopefully other people can fill in the gaps, and maybe we’ll end up with a useful set of data here.

You can make your own custom locale with the Microsoft Locale Builder tool at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=96654] It says “beta”, but it works fine.

To use a custom locale you’ll have to be running Windows Vista. I’m sharing the generated .ldml data file and my generated .nlp files. The easiest (but unsupported) way to get the locales installed is to just copy them to %windir%\globalization and add an appropriate registry entry.

Locales Included:

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.

Other Resources:

"My" blog is at http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnste
http://www.languagegeek.com/

Tools

Requests

If you need another locale, please use the tools above. Let me know when you have something working and we can release it in this project. Same thing for bugs :)

UPDATED WIKI: Home

RDPK7 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:00:34 GMT

Custom Locales for Windows Vista

This is a place to share custom locales (custom cultures) that you make for windows. No warranties or anything like that. I’m seeding it with some locales that I’ve created for testing and playing around with, but they aren’t guaranteed to work for any particular user.

If you have a custom locale that you’d like to add, let me know and I’ll give you permission to add it here. Partial locales are fine, hopefully other people can fill in the gaps, and maybe we’ll end up with a useful set of data here.

You can make your own custom locale with the Microsoft Locale Builder tool at [url:http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=96654] It says “beta”, but it works fine.

To use a custom locale you’ll have to be running Windows Vista. I’m sharing the generated .ldml data file and my generated .nlp files. The easiest (but unsupported) way to get the locales installed is to just copy them to %windir%\globalization and add an appropriate registry entry.

Locales Included:

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.

Other Resources:

"My" blog is at http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnste
http://www.languagegeek.com/

Tools

The Microsoft Locale Builder is available at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=96654&clcid=0x409

The Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator tool is available from
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx

Requests

If you need another locale, please use the tools above. Let me know when you have something working and we can release it in this project. Same thing for bugs :)

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

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:59:16 GMT

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

!! Locale 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 13:53:06 GMT

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

!! Locale Files Included
bg-BG-Correct.v1.0.ldml

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