How to set the output locale
An output locale is a specific setting that adapts your visualization to the language and country of your readers.
What changing the output locale does
When you choose an output locale, it will have an impact on the following:
- Display of decimal and thousand separators. For example, a number will appear as 1,000.00 in an English Locale, but as 1.000,00 in the Deutsch (de-DE) locale.
- Translation of month and weekday names, like Januar, Februar, März in a German locale and January, February, March in any English locale.
- Currency sign when choosing the $ placeholder as a part of a custom number format. $ will be displayed as £ in the English (en-GB) locale but $ in the English (en-US) locale. Learn more about $ placeholders here.
- Translation of footer options, like Map: Jane Doe / Source: UN Data in any English locale and Mappa: Jane Doe / Fonte: UN Data with an Italian locale.
If you're using an output locale that uses Cyrillic, Greek, or extended latin characters (like the Czech ž), select the Datawrapper (extended charset) theme that you can find in Visualize > Layout > Layout to make sure they're displayed nicely.
Where to change the output locale
The output locale has such a big impact on your visualization that they are two places where you can change it.
You'll first encounter the output locale in Step 2: Check & Refine:
You can also change the output locale in step 4: Visualize, and then in the Layout tab:
After selecting an output locale, the change will be instant.
Available output locales
You can currently set the output local to any the following language-country combinations. Do you need a language or combination that's not on this list? Send an email to support@datawrapper.de to help us add it!
| العربية-الإمارات | ar-AE | Arabic (UAE) |
| العربية-الجزائر | ar-DZ | Arabic (Algeria) |
| العربية-السعودية | ar-SA | Arabic (Saudi Arabia) |
| فارسی | fa-IR | Farsi (Iran) |
| دری | fa-AF | Dari (Afghanistan) |
| پښتو | ps-AF | Pashto (Afghanistan) |
| עברית | he-IL | Hebrew (Israel) |
| Azərbaycanca | az-AZ | Azeri (Azerbaijan) |
| български | bg-BG | Bulgarian (Bulgaria) |
| català | ca-ES | Catalan (Spain) |
| čeština | cs-CZ | Czech (Czechia) |
| dansk | da-DK | Danish (Denmark) |
| Deutsch | de-DE | German (Germany) |
| Deutsch | de-CH | German (Switzerland) |
| eesti | et-EE | Estonian (Estonia) |
| Ελληνικά | el-GR | Greek (Greece) |
| English | en-US | English (United States) |
| English | en-GB | English (United Kingdom) |
| English | en-IE | English (Ireland) |
| English | en-AP | English (Associated Press style) |
| English | en-CH | English (Switzerland) |
| español | es-ES | Spanish (Spain) |
| español | es-US | Spanish (United States) |
| español | es-AR | Spanish (Argentina) |
| euskara | eu-ES | Basque (Spain) |
| Føroyskt | fo-FO | Faroese (Faroe Islands) |
| français | fr-FR | French (France) |
| français | fr-CH | French (Switzerland) |
| français | fr-CA | French (Canada) |
| Gaeilge | ga-IE | Irish (Ireland) |
| galego | gl-ES | Galician (Spain) |
| hrvatski | hr-HR | Croatian (Croatia) |
| Íslenska | is-IS | Icelandic (Iceland) |
| italiano | it-IT | Italian (Italy) |
| italiano | it-CH | Italian (Switzerland) |
| Қазақша | kk-KZ | Kazakh (Kazakhstan) |
| 한국어 | ko-KR | Korean (South Korea) |
| кыргызча | ky-KG | Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan) |
| latviešu | lv-LV | Latvian (Latvia) |
| lietuvių | lt-LT | Lithuanian (Lithuania) |
| magyar | hu-HU | Hungarian (Hungary) |
| македонски | mk-MK | Macedonian (Macedonia) |
| Malti | mt-MT | Maltese (Malta) |
| Nederlands | nl-NL | Dutch (Netherlands) |
| Nederlands | nl-BE | Flemish (Belgium) |
| norsk (bokmål) | nb-NO | Norwegian Bokmål (Norway) |
| norsk (nynorsk) | nn-NO | Norwegian Nynorsk (Norway) |
| português | pt-PT | Portuguese (Portugal) |
| português | pt-BR | Portuguese (Brazil) |
| polski | pl-PL | Polish (Poland) |
| română | ro-RO | Romanian (Romania) |
| беларуская | be-BY | Belarusian (Belarus) |
| русский | ru-RU | Russian (Russia) |
| украї́нська | uk-UA | Ukrainian (Ukraine) |
| slovenčina | sk-SK | Slovak (Slovakia) |
| slovenski | sl-SI | Slovenian (Slovenia) |
| shqip | sq-AL | Albanian (Albania) |
| svenska | sv-SE | Swedish (Sweden) |
| тоҷикӣ | tg-TJ | Tajik (Tajikistan) |
| türkmençe | tk-TM | Turkmen (Turkmenistan) |
| Türkçe | tr-TR | Turkish (Turkey) |
| Հայերեն | hy-AM | Armenian (Armenia) |
| ქართული | ka-GE | Georgian (Georgia) |
| 日本語 | ja-JP | Japanese (Japan) |
| 中文 | zh-CN | Chinese (China) |