Supported languages
The following languages are supported for all PDF, XHTML, and HTML5-based transformation types.
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