Supported Languages

lid currently supports 41 languages and transliterations in a variety of modern, common and legacy character encodings.

Support for additional languages and character encodings is added regularly as the development of the lid library proceeds. However, if you need a specific language or character encoding supported, feel free to contact us so we can support it quickly.

Language ISO 639-3 Code Character Encodings
Bulgarian Bulgarian bul UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-5, Windows-1251, MacCyrillic, CP 855, CP 866, KOI8-R
Bulgarian
(DIN 1460 transliteration)
Bulgarian bul UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, Windows-1250, ASCII
Bulgarian
(ISO 9 transliteration)
Bulgarian bul UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ASCII
Bulgarian
(Streamlined System transliteration)
Bulgarian bul UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, Windows-1250, ASCII
Czech Czech ces UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-2, Windows-1250, MacCentralEuropean, CP 852
Czech
(Common transliteration)
Czech ces UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ASCII
Danish Danish dan UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252, MacRoman, CP 850, ASCII
Dutch Dutch nld UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15, Windows-1252, MacRoman, CP 850, ASCII
English English eng UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252, MacRoman, CP 850, ASCII
Estonian Estonian est UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-4, Windows-1257, MacCentralEuropean, CP 775, ASCII
Finnish Finnish fin UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15, Windows-1252, MacRoman, CP 850, ASCII
French French fra UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15, Windows-1252, MacRoman, CP 850, ASCII
German German deu UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15, Windows-1252, MacRoman, CP 850, ASCII
German
(Common transliteration)
German deu UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ASCII
Greek Greek ell UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-7, Windows-1253, MacGreek, CP 737
Greek
(DIN 31634 transliteration)
Greek ell UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ASCII
Greek
(Greeklish transliteration)
Greek ell UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ASCII
Greek
(ISO 843 transliteration)
Greek ell UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ASCII
Hungarian Hungarian hun UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-16, Windows-1250, CP 852, MacCentralEuropean
Irish (Gaelic) Irish (Gaelic) gle UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252, MacRoman, CP 850, ASCII
Italian Italian ita UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-16, Windows-1252, MacRoman, CP 850, ASCII
Latvian Latvian lav UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-4, Windows-1257, MacCentralEuropean, CP 775, ASCII
Lithuanian Lithuanian lit UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-4, Windows-1257, MacCentralEuropean, CP 775, ASCII
Maltese Maltese mlt UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-3
Polish Polish pol UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-16, Windows-1250, MacCentralEuropean, CP 852
Polish
(Common transliteration)
Polish pol UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ASCII
Portuguese Portuguese por UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15, Windows-1252, MacRoman, CP 850, ASCII
Romanian Romanian ron UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-2, Windows-1250, MacRomanian, CP 852
Romanian
(Common transliteration)
Romanian ron UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ASCII
Russian Russian rus UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-5, Windows-1251, MacCyrillic, CP 855, CP 866, KOI8-R
Russian
(DIN 1460 transliteration)
Russian rus UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8
Russian
(ISO 9 transliteration)
Russian rus UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8
Slovak Slovak slk UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-2, Windows-1250, MacCentralEuropean, CP 852
Slovak
(Common transliteration)
Slovak slk UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ASCII
Slovenian Slovenian slv UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-16, Windows-1250, MacCentralEuropean, CP 852, ASCII
Slovenian
(Common transliteration)
Slovenian slv UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ASCII
Spanish Spanish spa UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15, Windows-1252, MacRoman, CP 850, ASCII
Swedish Swedish swe UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, Windows-1252, MacRoman, CP 850, ASCII
Ukrainian Ukrainian ukr UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8, Windows-1251, MacUkrainian, KOI8-U
Ukrainian
(DIN 1460 transliteration)
Ukrainian ukr UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8
Ukrainian
(ISO 9 transliteration)
Ukrainian ukr UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-8