Which languages are fully-localized by Windows?

Raymond Chen

A little while ago, I discussed that not all languages get translated console output. For reference, here are the languages that are fully-localized, including console output:

Lang	Description
de-DE	German (Germany)
en-US	English (United States)
es-ES	Spanish (Spain)
fr-FR	French (France)
it-IT	Italian (Italy)
ja-JP	Japanese (Japan)
ko-KR	Korean (Korea)
pt-BR	Portuguese (Brazil)
ru-RU	Russian (Russia)
zh-CN	Chinese (China)
~~zh-HK~~	~~Chinese (Hong Kong)~~
zh-TW	Chinese (Taiwan)

The penultimate row is crossed out because support for full localization of Chinese (Hong Kong) was dropped in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

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Raymond Chen

Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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