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