Knowledge Base: Language Codes Used

This document contains a explanation of the language codes used in the software download documents in the Knowledge Base.

 

 Language Codes The Knowledge Base, with limited exceptions, uses standard ISO-639 language codes. Below is a list of the most common language codes used in the Knowledge Base.

Note: When a single software download can update any language a single letter, Z, is used as the language code.

 

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Language

 ISO-639 code

 
English EN EN-NA is used for North American English
EN-Z is used for International English
French (français) FR

 
German (Deutsch) DE

 
Spanish (Español) ES

 
Italian (Italiano) IT

 
Dutch (Nederlands) NL

 
Japanese JA

 
Norwegian (Norsk) NO

 
Swedish (Svensk) SV

 
Finnish (Suomi) FI

 
Danish (Dansk) DA

 
Brazilian/Portuguese (Portugues Brasileiro) PT

 
Chinese ZH ZH-S is used for Simplified Chinese
ZH-T is used for Traditional Chinese
Korean KO

 

 

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 Country Codes The Apple Specifications are published specifically for a country. ISO-1366 country codes are used for each country.

Note: In Europe specifications may be available in multiple languages for a given country.

 

 

Country

 ISO-3166 code

 
Australia AU  
Austria AT  
Belgium BE  
Canada CA  
Denmark DK  
Finland FI  
France FR  
Germany DE  
Ireland IE  
Italy IT  
Japan JP  
Netherlands NL  
Norway NO  
South Africa ZA  
Sweden SE  
Switzerland CH  
United Kingdom GB  
United States US  

 

Published Date: Feb 20, 2012