$culture
variable
- $culture
type
- behavioral
- display
associated template variable
- $_archives (month names)
- $_article (time and date stamps, sorting)
description
This variable specifies the sorting and formatting culture to use for your website.
The most visible change when changing cultures is that the names of the months in archive listings and article posts will be automatically translated into that culture's language. Alphabetic sorting is also affected, since the en-US sorting algorithm is not correct for many cultures with extended character sets.
example
$culture:fr-CA
valid values
- af-ZA [Afrikaans - South Africa]
- sq-AL [Albanian - Albania]
- ar-DZ [Arabic - Algeria]
- ar-BH [Arabic - Bahrain]
- ar-EG [Arabic - Egypt]
- ar-IQ [Arabic - Iraq]
- ar-JO [Arabic - Jordan]
- ar-KW [Arabic - Kuwait]
- ar-LB [Arabic - Lebanon]
- ar-LY [Arabic - Libya]
- ar-MA [Arabic - Morocco]
- ar-OM [Arabic - Oman]
- ar-QA [Arabic - Qatar]
- ar-SA [Arabic - Saudi Arabia]
- ar-SY [Arabic - Syria]
- ar-TN [Arabic - Tunisia]
- ar-AE [Arabic - United Arab Emirates]
- ar-YE [Arabic - Yemen]
- hy-AM [Armenian - Armenia]
- az-AZ-Cyrl [Azeri (Cyrillic) - Azerbaijan]
- az-AZ-Latn [Azeri (Latin) - Azerbaijan]
- eu-ES [Basque - Basque]
- be-BY [Belarusian - Belarus]
- bg-BG [Bulgarian - Bulgaria]
- ca-ES [Catalan - Catalan]
- zh-HK [Chinese - Hong Kong SAR]
- zh-MO [Chinese - Macau SAR]
- zh-CN [Chinese - China]
- zh-CHS [Chinese (Simplified)]
- zh-SG [Chinese - Singapore]
- zh-TW [Chinese - Taiwan]
- zh-CHT [Chinese (Traditional)]
- hr-HR [Croatian - Croatia]
- cs-CZ [Czech - Czech Republic]
- da-DK [Danish - Denmark]
- div-MV [Dhivehi - Maldives]
- nl-BE [Dutch - Belgium]
- nl-NL [Dutch - The Netherlands]
- en-AU [English - Australia]
- en-BZ [English - Belize]
- en-CA [English - Canada]
- en-CB [English - Caribbean]
- en-IE [English - Ireland]
- en-JM [English - Jamaica]
- en-NZ [English - New Zealand]
- en-PH [English - Philippines]
- en-ZA [English - South Africa]
- en-TT [English - Trinidad and Tobago]
- en-GB [English - United Kingdom]
- en-US [English - United States]
- en-ZW [English - Zimbabwe]
- et-EE [Estonian - Estonia]
- fo-FO [Faroese - Faroe Islands]
- fa-IR [Farsi - Iran]
- fi-FI [Finnish - Finland]
- fr-BE [French - Belgium]
- fr-CA [French - Canada]
- fr-FR [French - France]
- fr-LU [French - Luxembourg]
- fr-MC [French - Monaco]
- fr-CH [French - Switzerland]
- gl-ES [Galician - Galician]
- ka-GE [Georgian - Georgia]
- de-AT [German - Austria]
- de-DE [German - Germany]
- de-LI [German - Liechtenstein]
- de-LU [German - Luxembourg]
- de-CH [German - Switzerland]
- el-GR [Greek - Greece]
- gu-IN [Gujarati - India]
- he-IL [Hebrew - Israel]
- hi-IN [Hindi - India]
- hu-HU [Hungarian - Hungary]
- is-IS [Icelandic - Iceland]
- id-ID [Indonesian - Indonesia]
- it-IT [Italian - Italy]
- it-CH [Italian - Switzerland]
- ja-JP [Japanese - Japan]
- kn-IN [Kannada - India]
- kk-KZ [Kazakh - Kazakhstan]
- kok-IN [Konkani - India]
- ko-KR [Korean - Korea]
- ky-KZ [Kyrgyz - Kazakhstan]
- lv-LV [Latvian - Latvia]
- lt-LT [Lithuanian - Lithuania]
- mk-MK [Macedonian - FYROM]
- ms-BN [Malay - Brunei]
- ms-MY [Malay - Malaysia]
- mr-IN [Marathi - India]
- mn-MN [Mongolian - Mongolia]
- nb-NO [Norwegian (Bokmål) - Norway]
- nn-NO [Norwegian (Nynorsk) - Norway]
- pl-PL [Polish - Poland]
- pt-BR [Portuguese - Brazil]
- pt-PT [Portuguese - Portugal]
- pa-IN [Punjabi - India]
- ro-RO [Romanian - Romania]
- ru-RU [Russian - Russia]
- sa-IN [Sanskrit - India]
- sr-SP-Cyrl [Serbian (Cyrillic) - Serbia]
- sr-SP-Latn [Serbian (Latin) - Serbia]
- sk-SK [Slovak - Slovakia]
- sl-SI [Slovenian - Slovenia]
- es-AR [Spanish - Argentina]
- es-BO [Spanish - Bolivia]
- es-CL [Spanish - Chile]
- es-CO [Spanish - Colombia]
- es-CR [Spanish - Costa Rica]
- es-DO [Spanish - Dominican Republic]
- es-EC [Spanish - Ecuador]
- es-SV [Spanish - El Salvador]
- es-GT [Spanish - Guatemala]
- es-HN [Spanish - Honduras]
- es-MX [Spanish - Mexico]
- es-NI [Spanish - Nicaragua]
- es-PA [Spanish - Panama]
- es-PY [Spanish - Paraguay]
- es-PE [Spanish - Peru]
- es-PR [Spanish - Puerto Rico]
- es-ES [Spanish - Spain]
- es-UY [Spanish - Uruguay]
- es-VE [Spanish - Venezuela]
- sw-KE [Swahili - Kenya]
- sv-FI [Swedish - Finland]
- sv-SE [Swedish - Sweden]
- syr-SY [Syriac - Syria]
- ta-IN [Tamil - India]
- tt-RU [Tatar - Russia]
- te-IN [Telugu - India]
- th-TH [Thai - Thailand]
- tr-TR [Turkish - Turkey]
- uk-UA [Ukrainian - Ukraine]
- ur-PK [Urdu - Pakistan]
- uz-UZ-Cyrl [Uzbek (Cyrillic) - Uzbekistan]
- uz-UZ-Latn [Uzbek (Latin) - Uzbekistan]
- vi-VN [Vietnamese – Vietnam]