Supported Languages

Supported Languages in Unicode Sytems

By default SAP supports about 580 language codes mainly representing the ISO-639-2 standard. The list is enriched by specific national variants of languages.

Important Notes

  • 73606 Information published on SAP site, Attachment Supportedlanguages.xlsx:

    Detailed information on supported languages.

  • 112065 Information published on SAP site:

    More information about customer specific languages.

  • 302063 Information published on SAP site:

    More information about Correspondence languages.

Supported Languages and Code Pages in Non-Unicode Sytems

The following languages are supported as logon language for non-Unicode systems. Languages that use the same code page can be used together without restriction. Other combinations are not supported.

For more detailed information, see SAP Note 73606 Information published on SAP site: Attachment Supportedlanguages.xlsx.

Language

SAP Language Code (external) SAP Language Code (internal) SAP Code Page

Afrikaans

AF

a

1100; 1610

Arabic

AR

A

--

Bulgarian

BG

W

1500

Catalan

CA

c

1100; 1610

Chinese

ZH

1

8400

Chinese traditional

ZF

M

8300

Croatian

HR

6

1401

Czech

CS

C

1401

Danish

DA

K

1100; 1610

Dutch

NL

N

1100; 1610

English

EN

E

any

Estonian

ET

9

1900

Finnish

FI

U

1100; 1610

French

FR

F

1100; 1610

German

DE

D

1100; 1401; 1610

Greek

EL

G

1700

Hebrew

HE

B

1800

Hungarian

HU

H

1401

Icelandic

IS

b

1100

Indonesian

ID

i

1100; 1610

Italian

IT

I

1100; 1610

Japanese

JA

J

8000

Korean

KO

3

8500

Latvian

LV

Y

1900

Lithuanian

LT

X

1900

Malay

MS

7

1100; 1610

Norwegian

NO

O

1100; 1610

Polish

PL

L

1401

Portuguese

PT

P

1100; 1610

Reserved- cust.

Z1

Z

 

Romanian

RO

4

1401

Russian

RU

R

1500

Serbian

SR

0

1500

Serbo-Croatian

SH

d

1401

Slovakian

SK

Q

1401

Slovene

SL

5

1401

Spanish

ES

S

1100; 1610

Swedish

SV

V

1100; 1610

Thai

TH

2

8600

Turkish

TR

T

1610

Ukrainian

UK

8

1500