Supported languages
The following languages are supported for all PDF, XHTML, and HTML5-based transformation types.
xml:lang
Arabic
Bosnian
Belarusian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Hindi
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Kazakh
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Malay
Montenegrin
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Vietnamese
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language codes
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While language codes listed below use the conventional capitalization style of "aa-BB" and "aa-Script-BB",
DITA-OT processing is not case sensitive when reading these values from the xml:lang
attribute.
Supported languages
Language
Language code
Notes
العربية (Arabic)
ar or ar-EG
Defaults to right-to-left presentation.
Беларуская (Belarusian)
be or be-BY
Bosanski (Bosnian)
bs or bs-BA
Български (Bulgarian)
bg or bg-BG
Català (Catalan)
ca-ES
简体中文 (Simplified Chinese)
zh-CN or zh-Hans
PDF index is not properly collated by default.
繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese)
zh-TW or zh-Hant
PDF index is not properly collated by default.
Hrvatski (Croatian)
hr or hr-HR
Čeština (Czech)
cs or cs-CZ
Dansk (Danish)
da or da-DK
Nederlands (Dutch)
nl or nl-NL
Subset of generated text also available for Belgian Dutch (nl-BE)
English (US)
en or en-US
Subset of generated text also available for British English (en-GB) and Canadian English
(en-CA)
Eesti (Estonian)
et or et-EE
Suomi (Finnish)
fi or fi-FI
Français (French)
fr or fr-FR
Subset of generated text also available for Belgian French (fr-BE), Canadian French (fr-CA), and
Swiss French (fr-CH)
Deutsch (German)
de or de-DE
Subset of generated text also available for Swiss German (de-CH)
Ελληνικά (Greek)
el or el-GR
עברית (Hebrew)
he or he-IL
Defaults to right-to-left presentation.
हिन्दी (Hindi)
hi or hi-HI
Magyar (Hungarian)
hu or hu-HU
Íslenska (Icelandic)
is or is-IS
Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
id or id-ID
Italiano (Italian)
it or it-IT
Subset of generated text also available for Swiss Italian (it-CH)
日本語 (Japanese)
ja or ja-JP
PDF index is not properly collated by default.
Қазақша (Kazakh)
kk or kk-KZ
한국어 (Korean)
ko or ko-KR
Latviešu (Latvian)
lv or lv-LV
Lietuvių (Lithuanian)
lt or lt-LT
Македонски (Macedonian)
mk or mk-MK
Bahasa Melayu (Malay)
ms or ms-MY
Crnogorski (Montenegrin)
sr-Latn-ME
Norsk (Norwegian)
no or no-NO
Polski (Polish)
pl or pl-PL
Português (Portuguese)
pt or pt-PT
Português do Brasil (Brazilian Portuguese)
pt-BR
Română (Romanian)
ro or ro-RO
Русский (Russian)
ru or ru-RU
Српски (Serbian - Cyrillic script)
sr, sr-CS, sr-RS, or sr-SP
Srpski (Serbian - Latin script)
sr-Latn-RS
Slovenčina (Slovak)
sk or sk-SK
Slovenščina (Slovenian)
sl or sl-SI
Español (Spanish)
es or es-ES
Also supported using es-419 (Latin American Spanish).
Svenska (Swedish)
sv or sv-SE
ภาษาไทย (Thai)
th or th-TH
Türkçe (Turkish)
tr or tr-TR
Українська (Ukrainian)
uk or uk-UA
اردو (Urdu)
ur or ur-PK
Defaults to right-to-left presentation.
Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
vi or vi-VN